Exam Invigilator

Sturminster Newton High School, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 1DT

32 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  October 2025

• Closing date

  19 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 August 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: £12.65 Hourly Grade 3, Scale Point 4: £12.65 per hour

Exam Invigilator job summary

Salary: Grade 3, Scale Point 4: £12.65 per hour

Contract: Casual

Sturminster Newton High School is seeking reliable, organised, and attentive individuals to join our team of Exam Invigilators. This role plays a vital part in ensuring the smooth running of examinations. You will help create a calm environment for students, ensuring exam regulations are followed. A comprehensive induction will be provided before commencing in role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare exam rooms prior to student arrival
• Distribute and collect exam materials as required.
• Ensure the integrity of the examination process is maintained.
• Supervise students throughout the duration of the exam.

The successful candidate will:

• Be caring and supportive
• Have excellent attention to detail
• Have the ability to empathise with students
• Be flexible, reliable and well organised
• Be able to use a range of strategies to deal with students under pressure and also individual behavioural needs
• Have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with colleagues
• Have the ability to be a team player who will go the extra mile to support students and who will enjoy the challenges of this role

We are particularly keen to hear from caring, supportive adults to assist our SEND students with their examination access arrangements, such as the use of a reader or scribe. Whilst no experience is needed as training will be given, experience of working with young people would be an advantage.

We warmly encourage a visit the school prior to application. Our Exams Manager, Emily Brooks is also available to have an informal discussion with interested applicants about the role. Please contact her on 4179ebr@mysnhs.net to find out more.

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SAST will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. In line with KCSIE guidance, this will be part of safer recruitment checks, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern. 

Safeguarding responsibilities associated with this role may include engagement in regulatory activity, such as administering first aid or supporting an upset child.  It will have contact with young people on a day-to-day basis.  SAST is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  The successful candidate will have to meet the person specification and the post is subject to safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS check and Children’s Barred List check.  The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. 

 

SAST recognises the benefit of having a diverse workforce and is committed to building a workforce which reflects diversity from the communities it serves. SAST values the contributions from all staff from a wide range of different backgrounds and actively seeks to promote an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment and at the same time supports fair promotion and cultural acceptance. Under the provision of the Equality Act 2010 SAST welcomes applications from everyone and operates a recruitment process which is fair and does not discriminate against or disadvantage anyone because of their age, disability, gender reassignment status, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.  

 

This role is UK- based and your right to work will need to be established as part of the appointment 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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding responsibilities associated with this role will include engagement in regulatory activity, such as administering first aid or supporting an upset child. It will have contact with young people on a day-to day basis. SAST is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will meet the person specification and is subject to an enhanced DBS and Children’s Barred List check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

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 Sturminster Newton High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 617 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sturminster Newton High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sturminster-newton-high-school-sturminster-newton

Sturminster Newton High School is a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school with a good reputation as a small, community focussed school serving a wide rural catchment area. We are extremely proud of our school where we set high standards for academic and personal achievement and we value the size of our school community which allows staff and students know one another and students to be treated and valued as individuals.

The school promotes a happy and purposeful teaching environment, where all are supported and encouraged to do their best. “pupils are now making better progress than they have in previous years.” Ofsted 2018. In September 2021 the school introduced a broad enrichment programme, designed to compensate for missed opportunities during the pandemic, where we offer a variety of academic, creative, sporting and wellbeing activities run by the school and local community.

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