Exam Invigilators

Didsbury High School, Manchester, M20 2ET

20 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  8 September 2025

• Closing date

  20 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £14.13 per hour

Exam Invigilators job summary

We seek to appoint a number of Exam Invigilators to work as part of a team throughout the academic year, on a casual basis. Our Exam Invigilators are responsible for overseeing and supervising examinations and ensuring that guidelines, regulations and procedures are followed during examination sessions. The main external examinations period takes places during May and June with occasional exams scheduled at various times in the Autumn and Spring terms. Training will be provided.

Please be advised that all Exam Invigilators supporting the Laurus Trust must sign up for the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) update service, which has an annual fee, payable by the individual. For more information, kindly visit the government website.

Job Purpose (For further details on the role, please find the Job Description below)

• Assist in the setting up of examination rooms.
• Ensure all candidates receive appropriate examination question papers and answer papers.
• Be aware of any needs that candidates may have during an examination.

To complete an application form please click ‘Fast Apply’. A full application must be submitted as CV’s will unfortunately not be accepted in line with our safer recruitment process. Please submit one application to your priority school, within the application you will be able to indicate one other school within the Laurus Trust that you would like to be considered for, if applicable.

Closing date: We will be accepting applications until 25th May 2026 (This advert will close on 20th October and reopen on the same day)

We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date.

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

The Laurus Trust is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of individual background or circumstance.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we strongly encourage applications from all persons with a known disability, and we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants, that meet the minimum criteria for a role, will be offered an interview and given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.

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 Didsbury High School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1181 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Didsbury High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/didsbury-high-school

Didsbury High School is a new secondary free school for 11-18 students in South Manchester. The school is run by the Laurus Trust and replicates the outstanding education already provided by the Trust’s founder school, Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS), based in Stockport. CHHS is a hugely oversubscribed school and was recently named as one of the UK’s top-performing schools in The Sunday Times, ranking as the 15th non-denominational comprehensive school in Manchester and the North West in the annual Parent Power Survey for 2022.

Didsbury High School is the most oversubscribed first preference school in Manchester, we are a non-selective, non-denominational school, which opened in September 2019. We currently have students in Years 7 to 10. In addition, we will be opening our brand-new sixth form in September 2023.

Our students have access to state-of-the-art facilities in a brand-new building behind Didsbury Point. Didsbury is a suburban area of Manchester, 4.5 miles south of Manchester City Centre. The location enjoys the advantages of proximity to the open countryside of Cheshire and the Peak District, strong transport links and the cultural and sporting activities of a major city.

If you want to work in a highly ambitious and successful school and believe you have the vision and commitment to join our team, then we would love to hear from you.

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