Exam Invigilator

Redden Court School, Romford, Essex, RM3 0TS

47 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  from October 2025

• Closing date

  12 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £14.57 Hourly plus 12.07% holiday pay per hour

Exam Invigilator job summary

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Ensuring that the room meets requirements (e.g., clock clearly visible to all)

• Getting candidates into the exam hall in an appropriate manner

• Ensuring that candidates have correct papers

• Ensuring correct identification of all candidates

• Dealing with extra candidates not on the register

• Ensuring candidates are aware they are under exam conditions, (e.g., retrieving mobile phones)

• Reading erratum notices

• Notifying candidates of the start of the exam

• Recording start and finishing times of exams

• Organising and distributing papers and any other authorised materials to candidates

• Ensuring the attendance register is completed

• Ensuring late candidates are briefed, seated and allowed to partake in the exam with minimum fuss

• Supervising candidates in a quiet and unobtrusive manner

• Supervising ‘clash’ candidates between exams

• Distributing additional paper/equipment as required

• Ensuring that efficient timekeeping is maintained

• Notifying candidates that the exam has finished

• Ensuring exam conditions are maintained until candidates are dismissed from the room

• Collecting scripts in attendance register order

• Checking that nothing has been left at the desk and no graffiti has been made during the exam

• Ensuring that scripts are never left unattended and are safely delivered to the Exams Officer

• Responding to candidates’ queries in accordance with exam regulations

  If you wish to have an informal discussion about the post before applying please feel free to contact Mrs K Cooper by emailing kcooper@reddencourtcloud.co.uk

  We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce. Applications are welcome from all sections of the community regardless of gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, age or sexual orientation.

  We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. If you are interested in the role, please submit your application as early as possible.

  Please note the use of AI is strictly forbidden during the application and interview process

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Redden Court School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1061 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Redden Court School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/redden-court-school

We pride ourselves on being a fully comprehensive school placed at the heart of the community. We want all of our students to be happy, ambitious and to achieve results that reflect their true potential.

Our school has served the local community of Harold Wood for many years, providing a high quality education to the students of this area.

Our vision is focused on a ‘Commitment to Success for All’ and high levels of aspiration for every member of our community. The school is forward thinking and progressive. We seek to achieve the very best for all of our students through the use of a rich variety of educational approaches.
We have caring staff who are dedicated to ensuring the students are successful in every aspect of their learning.
Redden Court is the founding school in the Success for All Educational Trust and is recognised as one of the highest performing mixed comprehensive schools in Havering.

We are an accredited ‘Thinking School’ and have very close links with the Cognitive Education Development Unit at the University of Exeter. Metacognition and the development of thinking skills is at the heart of our teaching and learning in the school as we believe it plays an important part in developing resilient and independent learners.

We also have very strong links with the Havering Teacher Training Programme, we are a senior partner in the Empower Teaching Alliance and we are recognised as a Leading Edge School by the SSAT. The school has also been accredited with All Together (Anti Bullying), Place2Be (Student Mental Health), SEND Exceptional Outcomes Award, The Quality in Careers Standards, Healthy Schools Gold Award and Gold Travel Ambassadors Award.

We are a growing community Trust with inclusion at the heart of our ethos and require leaders who will bring this vision to life.

These are exciting times for Redden Court School with so much change and challenge in the future.

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