Exam Invigilator
West Hatch High School, Chigwell, Essex, IG7 5BTThis job expired on 1 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 December 2024 at 8am
Date listed
4 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Casual Contract
Contract type
- Casual
Hourly rate
- £13.56 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
Duties and Responsibilities:
General requirements
- Experience of invigilation is not required as training in the role and duties of an invigilator will be provided
- Invigilators are required to declare if they have invigilated previously and whether they have any current maladministration/malpractice sanctions applied to them
- Invigilators are required to confirm their availability in advance of main exam periods
- Invigilators must confirm the confidentiality and security requirements surrounding the invigilation process are known, understood and will be followed at all times
- To comply with individual responsibilities, in accordance with the role, for health & safety in the workplace
- Ensure that all duties and services provided are in accordance with the School’s Equal Opportunities Policy
An ideal candidate will:
- Be reliable, flexible and readily available during main exam periods
- Have effective communication skills and good interpersonal skills
- Work well as part of a team
- Be confident and a reassuring presence to candidates in exam rooms
- Be able to give instructions and manage situations involving different groups of people
- Have basic IT skills (familiar with use of email, mobile phone messaging etc.)
- Assist students with Access Arrangements, ie reading
Main duties
- To conduct examinations in accordance with the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), awarding body and West Hatch High School regulations and instructions
- To have a key role in upholding the integrity and security of the examination/assessment process
Before exams
- Report to and be briefed by the exams officer prior to each exam session
- Keep confidential exam question papers and materials secure before, during and after exams
- Ensure exam rooms are set up according to the requirements
- Ensure silence in the examination room and avoid disruption at all times
- Admit candidates into exam rooms under formal exam conditions
- Identify candidates and seat candidates according to the required arrangements
- Distribute the correct question papers and exam materials to candidates
- Instruct candidates in the conduct of their exams
- Deal with candidate questions
- Start exams
During exams
- Supervise and observe candidates at all times and be vigilant throughout exams – Walk around the examination room, ensuring no candidate has forbidden items and remove and report
- Keep disruption in exam rooms to a minimum
- Deal with emergencies or irregularities effectively
- Record/report any incidents, disruption or irregularities
- Complete attendance registers
- Deal with candidate questions according to the regulations
After exams
- Instruct candidates in finishing their exams and collect exam scripts and exam materials
- Dismiss candidates from the exam room
- Check candidates’ names on scripts, match the details on the attendance register
- Securely return all exam scripts and exam materials to the exams officer
Other tasks
- Undertake training, update and review sessions as required
(prior to invigilating any exam in a new academic year)
- Undertake relevant online invigilator training and assessment for that academic year
- Undertake, where required and where able, other duties requested by the exams officer, for example centre supervision of exam timetable clash candidates between exam sessions
- Facilitating access arrangements for candidates, for example as a reader, scribe etc. (full training will be provided)
- Other exams-related administrative tasks including maintaining question paper security by supporting the ‘second pair of eyes check’
The duties above are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may be required by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within the context of the job, skills and grade.
To apply
Please visit www.westhatch.net to download a non-teaching application form under the ‘Join Us/Admissions’ section. Alternatively, you can email recruitment@westhatch.net
What the school offers its staff
At West Hatch we believe in building strong relationships with students and going the extra mile to support students’ successes both in and outside of school.
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.
About West Hatch High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1505 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- West Hatch High School website
- Email address
- recruitment@westhatch.net
- Phone number
- 02085048216
West Hatch High School is a large, thriving, successful, heavily oversubscribed Academy. West Hatch is situated on the Central Line overlooking the Roding Valley with easy access to London.
A significant building programme has resulted in refurbishment in Science, a new English block, a Business and Enterprise Centre, new Music block, Maths, Drama and Dining Block, and a new Sixth form Centre. In addition there has been a new Sports Centre opened.
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