Examinations Officer

Salary: H7 Pt 19 - H8 26 £25,927 - £30,984 + Fringe £914

Actual Salary: £23,473 - £28,140 (including fringe)

37 hours per week: Monday - Friday

Term time plus 10 days

Required for August 2022

                                                                               

Rickmansworth School is an 11-18 heavily oversubscribed co-educational partially (35%) selective academy with 1455 students on roll, increasing to around 1575 students over the next five years. Academic results are strong at KS4 and KS5 with the vast majority of students securing their first choice university destinations.

The School is in a very strong, stable financial position with over £6M recently spent on school expansion including a new Sixth-form centre, performing arts theatres and an Innovation & Design Centre. The School is also supported extremely well by a fantastic PTA and Foundation. Our outstanding staff well-being programme includes fortnightly well-being periods, access to our fitness suite and swimming pool, flu vaccinations and complimentary eye tests. The School’s admissions criteria gives preference to staff members’ children.

Our students enjoy learning and are an absolute pleasure to teach. We believe every child deserves the best and we aim to achieve excellence in all aspects of school life.

The successful candidate will:

Make arrangements for internal examinations, including the production of the timetable, rooming and invigilation and liaising with Heads of Department to ensure that all required materials are in the examination rooms for the start of the examination and arrangements for candidates with special educational needs are in place.

Check, record and file examination  papers securely as they arrive from examination boards.

Brief candidates on examination regulations and produce written guidelines for staff and students; ensuring candidates are aware of their own examination timetables.

Liaise with School SENDCo regarding candidates with special educational needs and ensuring that access arrangements are in place during examinations.

Oversee training of the invigilator team and the recruitment of invigilators when required.

Encourage a positive examination culture in the school to which all staff and students subscribe.

Keep up to date with the requirements of the role. Ensure attendance at appropriate awarding body training meetings, etc. and keeping up to date with the latest procedures and regulations for external examinations.

We can offer you:

Excellent CPD opportunities

A school rated Good by Ofsted where students’ behaviour is exemplary

A professional working environment where teamwork is highly valued

A partially-selective school with a focus on academic achievement (Progress 8 in 2020-21 was +0.53)

Admission criteria where preference is given to staffs’ children

A school which invests heavily in the future with £6M recent school expansion and strong ongoing financial support from our Foundation and PTA

A hugely talented and cohesive support staff

An outstanding wellbeing programme offering: 

Flu jabs 

Free access to our first-class fitness suite and swimming pool 

Complimentary eye tests

Fortnightly wellbeing period

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and are an equal opportunities employer.  Applicants must declare any criminal convictions and submit to a check with the Disclosing and Barring Service as the post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.  

Application forms and further details can be obtained from the website www.rickmansworth.herts.sch.uk, by calling the School on 01923 773296 or by email to applications@rickmansworth.herts.sch.uk.

Deadline for applications: Friday 08 July 2022

Interview date: W/C 11 July (or on receipt of application)

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