Exam Invigilator

**Salary**

From 1st April 2024: Standard Invigilator: £12.82 per hour (being £11.44 pay and £1.38 holiday pay) Lead Invigilator: £13.61 per hour (being £12.15 pay and £1.46 holiday pay)

**Contractual hours**

0

**Job type**

Support Staff - Educational

**Package**

Competitive pension schemes through Teachers Pensions or LGPS; Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured); Cycle to work scheme; Discounted gym membership (PureGym and Nuffield Health); Continuing Professional and Leadership development

**Job category**

Exam Invigilator

**Date posted**

06/03/2024

**Job reference**

CST-R0014

**Exams Invigilator**

**Responsible to**: Exams Officer

**Salary**:(from 1st April 2024)
- **Standard Invigilator**: £12.82 per hour (being £11.44 pay and £1.38 holiday pay)
- **Lead Invigilator**:£13.61 per hour (being £12.15 pay and £1.46 holiday pay)

**Start date**: as soon as possible

**Hours**: Hourly, by negotiation and agreement with the examinations officer during the exam periods. Usually mock exams take place in November and formal exams from the beginning of May to theend of June. Any other exam periods during the year as required.

**Purpose of the role**

To embrace the mission and values of Trinity Academy, ensuring that every student is supported to achieve their best. Exam invigilators ensure that examinations are conducted according to the regulations to:

- Ensure the security of examination materials before, during and after the examination
- Prevent possible administrative failures

**Details of the role**:
Our mission at Trinity Academy is to create a world class school. This is because at Trinity Academy we expect that all members of our community seek to become the best version of themselves. We do this by living out our three core values in all that we say and do. These are: Head, Heart and Soul.

We believe that education has the power to change lives and communities. We constantly strive to improve our practice, so that every student is empowered to realise their full potential academically, pastorally, in their sense of self and their own

agency.

Every exam invigilation post at Trinity Academy must also embrace the following:
**Trinity Academy General Exam Invigilator Requirements**:

- Invigilators are required to declare if they have invigilated previously and whether they have any current maladministration/malpractice sanctions applied to them
- Confirm their availability to the Examinations Officer in advance of the main examination periods
- Understand and confirm that the confidentiality and security requirements surrounding the invigilation process are known, understood and will be followed at all times
- Be reliable, flexible and readily available during main examination periods
- Have effective communication skills and good interpersonal skills
- Work well as part of the Exam Invigilation team
- Give instructions and manage situations involving different groups of people
- Seek to achieve competence in the role and a rigorous understanding of the JCQ regulations

**Trinity Academy Specific Exam Invigilator Responsibilities**:
To conduct examinations in accordance with the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), awarding body and Trinity Academy’s regulations and instructions, and to have a key role in upholding the integrity and security of the external examination/assessment process.

**Before examinations**:

- 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
- Give full attention to conducting the examinations properly
- Start exams

**During examinations**:

- Keep disruption in examination rooms to a minimum
- Deal with emergencies or irregularities effectively
- Record/report any incidents, disruption or irregularities
- Complete attendance registers

**After examinations**:

- Securely return all examination scripts and materials to the exams officer

**Other tasks**:

- Undertake training, update and review sessions as required
- Undertake annual online invigilator training and assessment when requested by the Examinations Officer
- Undertake, where required and where able, other duties requested by the exams officer, for example:

- other exams-related administrative tasks including maintaining question paper security by supporting the ‘second pair of eyes check’
- Show genuine care and respect for our young people and for everyone who makes up the community at Trinity Academy
- Be mindful of your own wellbeing and that of your colleagues

provision of two strong references and an enhanced DBS check.

Cathedral Schools Trust is an equal opportunities employer and recognises the strength in diversity. Our schools have a wide range of cultural, socio economic and religious influences and we use this to ensure that we broaden our understanding of each other and the world.