Examinations Officer
Deer Park School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2HT8 days remaining to apply
Closing date
15 May 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,179.00 - £36,369.00 Annually (FTE) . Grade E - Step 1 Actual Annual Salary £29,235.80 (which is equivalent to a full-time salary of £33,179)
Examinations Officer job summary
Examinations Officer - 37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 4:00pm and Friday 8:00am - 3:30pm, term time only (40 weeks). Flexibility is required during exam periods, and you must be available to work during GCSE results week. Grade E - Step 1 Actual Annual Salary £29,235.80 (which is equivalent to a full-time salary of £33,179).
As part of our commitment to staff wellbeing RAISE Education Trust is trialling a two week half term break 19th to 30th October 2026. Following this trial, should the Trust revert back to a one-week October half term break from 2027 the contractual working weeks would increase to 39 weeks and the salary would increase accordingly.
We are part of the RAISE Education Trust which comprises of Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School. Our staff form a collective team that makes a difference to the lives of our students. This is an exciting time for the trust and all colleagues present and future.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the administration of all internal and external examinations, ensuring full compliance with awarding body and regulatory requirements by the JCQ.
- Plan and manage the examinations calendar, including timetables, rooming, staffing, and invigilation.
- Oversee exam entries via SIMS, ensuring accuracy, adherence to school policy, and effective liaison with staff, students, parents, and exam boards.
- Ensure secure handling, storage, and distribution of all examination materials and completed scripts.
- Manage exam-day operations, including access arrangements, resolving timetable clashes, and maintaining regulatory compliance.
- Recruit, train, and deploy invigilators to ensure high standards of exam conduct.
- Coordinate results processes, including results days, post-results services (reviews/appeals), and reporting/analysis of exam data.
- Maintain accurate records, monitor budgets, ensure data protection compliance, and keep up to date with exam regulations and best practice.
- During exam periods and results the successful candidate will be required to work flexible hours outside of stated working hours to ensure completion of exams and results
Benefits of working for our trust include:
- Friendly and sociable colleagues
- RAISE a Hand day: One day per academic year — a fully paid day off to support personal events.
- Two-week October half term: Providing staff and students with an extended break during the autumn term.
- Free on-site car park
- Staff membership rates to our modern on-site Leisure Centre
- Enrolment in one of the UK’s largest public sector pension schemes
- A tax efficient Cycle-to-Work scheme through salary sacrifice
- Good transport links
If you currently work in a school, please ensure one of your references is from your current Headteacher.
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may invite candidates to interview before the closing date. Closing Date: Midday, Friday 15th May 2026.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we receive applications that meet the criteria. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
RAISE Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Deer Park School
- School type
- Free Schools, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 697 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Deer Park School website
Deer Park School is a new seven-form entry secondary school which opened in September 2021 initially with four forms of Year 7 and growing to full capacity of seven forms of entry over the next seven years.
We are part of the Wildern Academy Trust which comprises of Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School.
This is an exciting time for the trust and all colleagues joining us.
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