Exam Invigilator

Wade Deacon High School, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 7TD

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  as soon as possible

• Closing date

  21 October 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  16 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £13.45 per hour

Exam Invigilator job summary

We are seeking to employ enthusiastic and committed individuals to support the school’s Examinations Team during examination and assessment periods throughout the school year.

Successful candidates would need to be available throughout the majority of May and June each year to support the main period of GCSE examinations. In addition, availability during periods of mock examinations which take place during November, December and March each year.

The primary purpose of the role is to ensure that candidates sit examinations in the correct conditions, ensuring the integrity and smooth running of internal and public examinations. Training will be provided for all successful candidates and previous experience of invigilation whilst beneficial is not essential.

Our school community is also a highly rewarding place to work. A comprehensive programme of CPD and a commitment to wellbeing supports colleagues at all career stages; through the School and the Trust, we provide excellent career opportunities for our staff. Colleagues seeking a varied, challenging and rewarding career can find this in the Wade Deacon family.

Wade Deacon High School is friendly, dynamic and innovative. Our latest OFSTED report from November 2022 described us as “an Outstanding School" in all areas, praising the school for providing pupils with a ‘first-rate education’ and an ‘aspirational curriculum’, describing pupils as ‘extremely happy’ and their behaviour as ‘exemplary’.

We pride ourselves on the quality and diversity of our curriculum, including our personal development and extracurricular provision which not only enable our students to enjoy their learning but also allows them to be able to meet the many challenges that they will face in the future, understanding the wider world and their place within it.

Above all else, we are a school that believes that every student, regardless of their context or starting point, can and should achieve their full potential. If you believe that you have the motivation, belief and leadership quality to contribute to our future success, we would welcome an application from you.

The Wade Deacon Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory medical clearance.

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

Wade Deacon High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

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 Wade Deacon High School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1658 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Wade Deacon High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wade-deacon-high-school-widnes

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