Exam Invigilator

The Robert Smyth Academy, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7JG

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  November 2025

• Closing date

  26 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.65 - £12.65 Hourly

Exam Invigilator job summary

To oversee and supervise examinations and to ensure that guidelines and regulations for the integrity and security of the examination papers and procedures are followed during examination sessions.

Responsibilities of an examination invigilator

• To assist in the setting up of examination rooms
• Help manage the entry and exit of students to and from the examination room
• To ensure all candidates receive appropriate examination question papers and answer paper
• To be aware of any needs that candidates may have during an examination
• To accompany individual students who may need to temporarily leave an examination room
• To ensure answer scripts are collected in candidate number order and are supervised as required until they are delivered to the Examinations Officer
• To ensure candidates obey the regulations of an examination room as laid out in the examination guidelines
• To maintain security and confidentiality
• To ensure no inappropriate items are brought into the examination hall, such as mobile phones, revision notes or other paperwork unless told otherwise
• To ensure there is no talking or disruption for the candidates once an examination has begun.

Employment will be on a casual basis. The peak period of examinations are May and June with the mock exams in March, November and December.

For further information please don't hesitate to get in touch.

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 The Robert Smyth Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1277 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Robert Smyth Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-robert-smyth-academy

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