Exams Officer
Wootton Park School, Northampton, NN4 0HZDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
8 December 2025 at 11am
Date listed
21 November 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
- £33,698.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Scale I22-26
Exams Officer job summary
Due to growth and development internally we are seeking a new Exams Officer. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a small secondary school on all aspects of exam and assessment administration.
The hours of work are 37 hours a week (8.00am-4.00pm); Monday to Friday, term time (plus 5 teacher training days and two additional weeks around exams timetable - 41 weeks a year)
We Can Offer You
Exemplary learner behaviour and engagement
Supportive professional development following a coaching model.
An exciting, friendly and conscientious working environment.
Employee Assistance Programme (Staff Well-being) scheme.
Staff sport activities
Reprographics and IT support
LGSS Pension
About Us
Wootton Park School offers a first-rate and unique learning environment, ensuring high levels of academic achievement and personal development for all, while promoting the value of community participation and building a stronger society.
Wootton Park School, our founding School of Wootton Park Academy Trust is an all-through (4-19) school, In September 2022, we had our first Year 6 & Year 13 cohorts, we are now operational in every year group. In 2020 we moved into our brand new £20 million state-of-the-art school building.
In July 2019 Wootton Park School was judged to be outstanding in every category by Ofsted. This was maintained in March 2025 inspection.
Wootton Park School recently achieved the Quality Inclusion Mark and the Wellbeing Award for Schools.
In September 2025 we have opened our second School, Overstone Gate Primary.
We are very proud of our Trust and Schools and are looking for like-minded professionals to join us on.
What We Are Looking For
- Our ideal candidate will be fully committed to securing the best outcomes for all our learners and will ‘go the extra mile’ to do this.
- All members of our team must be committed to maximising potential and continuous improvement, and be willing to participate fully in all aspects of school life.
- Our quest for excellence, must, however, also be combined with our unwavering commitment to care and support. Therefore, anyone seeking appointment to this role must demonstrate our Trust Values of Kindness, Teamwork, Positivity, Respect, and Responsibility.
In accordance with our statutory obligations under Keeping Children Safe in Education Wootton Park Academy Trust is required to conduct an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates and offer of a position is subject to receiving satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Wootton Park Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
Please note we do not accept CVs and references will be applied for at the shortlisting stage.
Closing Date: Monday 8th December 2025, 12noon
Interview Date: w/b 8th December 2025
Position Start Date: January 2026 (subject to safer recruitment checks)
We maintain the right to close the application process early or later if necessary.
Applicants need to be available to interview in person.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
In accordance with our statutory obligations under Keeping Children Safe in Education Wootton Park Academy Trust is required to conduct an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates and offer of a position is subject to receiving satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Please note we do not accept CVs and references will be applied for at the
shortlisting stage.
Our latest Safeguarding Policy is on our school website.
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 Wootton Park School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1563 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wootton Park School website
Wootton Park Academy Trust, trading as Wootton Park School
This is an exciting time for the Trust as we realise our ambition to build on our existing outstanding school, Wootton Park School and develop the Trust to include additional outstanding schools in Northampton and the surrounding areas. Wootton Park Academy Trust currently comprises of two schools with a third proposed for 2027.
Our aspirational Trust aims to provides a first-rate learning environment and delivers high levels of academic achievement and personal development for all, while promoting the value of community participation and building a stronger society.
Our first academy in the Trust, Wootton Park School, opened in 2016 with fewer than 20 staff and now employs 200+.
In July 2019 Wootton Park School received our first Ofsted inspection and were judged to be outstanding in every category. Inspectors noted that “The quality of teaching, learning and assessment is of a consistently high quality” and that “Achievement is outstanding in the early years and at key stages 1 and 3". "Staff morale is exceptionally high" Ofsted 2019.
Our second School, Overstone Gate Primary School, opens in September 2025 with 1 Reception class and will grow year on year.
A third School, Dallington Park School; a secondary school, is proposed to open in September 2027.
Our hope is that our journey models that of Wootton Park School in delivering consistently high quality outstanding education.
We are very proud of our school and are looking for like-minded professionals to join us on the next stage of our exciting journey.
If you are inspired by this exceptional opportunity to join us at this stage of our journey, we want to hear from you!
Please visit our school website for more information about our school and a virtual tour.
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