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Invigilator

Invigilator

Welling School

Welling

  • £10.48 per hour
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  • Expired
Job type:
Part Time, Temporary
Start date:
By negotiation and agreement during main exam periods
Apply by:
30 September 2021

Job overview

Job Title:  Invigilator

Reporting to:  Examinations Officer

Location:  Welling School

Hourly pay rate:  £10.48 plus holiday pay of 12.07%. 

Appointment:  By negotiation and agreement during main exam periods 


About Us:

Our vision is simple – to ensure that all of our students achieve beyond our expectations and flourish as confident learners with the highest aspirations, ready for a bright and successful future and ready for the world in which they will work and live. We are relentless in our pursuit of the very best for all our students. We understand challenges but do not accept them as limitations.

Welling School is an all ability, co-educational 11-18 school, located in the London borough of Bexley. As well as serving our local community we welcome students from a diverse range of backgrounds and areas. Each of them brings their own part to make up the Welling School Community.   We are proud to be part of The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) which is one of the largest Multi Academy Trusts in South East England with over 40 Primary and Secondary Academies in the TKAT family.  At Welling our shared values are to be:

  • Ambitious 
  • Kind
  • Active

 See our website for further information about the school www.wellingschool-tkat.org


Core Purpose:

To ensure that the integrity of the examination/assessment process is upheld in accordance with the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ).

The Role:

Our Invigilators are the person in the examination room responsible for conducting a particular examination session in the presence of the candidates. Our Invigilators have a key role in upholding the integrity of the external examination/assessment process and also in providing support and guidance to students.

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


Key Responsibilities:

Main duties

  1. To conduct examinations in accordance with the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), awarding body and all relevant regulations and instructions. 
  2. 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
  • 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
  • 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 
  • Offer support to students as needed

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’


Personal Qualities, Skills  and Expectations:

  • 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.)


To apply

Please fill out the attached Application form.  References and other relevant checks will be carried out as part of Welling School’s recruitment and selection process.To arrange a visit or discuss the post, please contact Victoria Edwards, HR Adviser on 020 8304 8531 or email victoria.edwards@wellingschool-tkat.org.   

Applications should be completed and returned to victoria.edwards@wellingschool-tkat.org. 


Safeguarding: TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

Equal Opportunities: TKAT is committed to equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic for example race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or age. All applications are treated on merit. This includes applications from individuals wishing to work full-time, part-time, or on a flexible basis.






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About Welling School

Thank you for taking the time to consider applying for the post advertised at Welling School.  The successful candidate for this post will be a teacher who can take their love of teaching and use it to inspire and motivate students to achieve or exceed their absolute potential.  

At Welling School our mission is to achieve high standards and fulfil the expectations of all students of all abilities and from diverse backgrounds.  We passionately believe that every child does matter and that they deserve to enjoy their learning experience with us.  Our dedicated staff place students' interests at the centre of everything they do, ensuring that students have high aspirations and are able to reach their full potential.  Our 'Welling Ways' engenders the values of nurturing the whole child to be an inclusive citizen in preparation for their future life and work.

Welling School is located in the Borough of Bexley, just 25 minutes outside of Central London with excellent transport links.  Our co-educational 11-18 students can study a broad range of subjects through our innovative curriculum.  We are an oversubscribed Academy with a Visual Arts Specialism that has gained a national reputation for being at the cutting edge of contemporary practice in art.   In February 2015 Ofsted judged the school to be good in every category, including the 6th form, where many of our students choose to stay to continue their studies.  We are part of the TKAT family, one of the largest multi-academy Trust's in the South East of England, who's ultimate aim is to ensure that educational standards are driven up through the provision of outstanding teaching, leadership and learning for all. The Trust CPD programmes provide additional training opportunities to work alongside the school's excellent in-house training programmes.

We have excellent facilities and continue to invest in resources to enhance our students learning.  We have a rich and full range of extra curricular activities including a school choir, sports clubs, STEM club, reading club and other performing arts and curriculum based activities, as well as our educational trips and visits and charity expeditions.

If you share our vision and values, then we would be very pleased to hear from you.  I encourage you to make an appointment to visit the school so that you can see Welling 'at work'.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Rob Pett

Headteacher

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