Exam Invigilators

Buckler's Mead Academy; Yeovil; Presencial; GBP 12 000 - 17 000; Tempo parcial

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Free on-site parking

Teachers' Pension Scheme access forAll

Employee Assistance Programme Health A

Resumo da oferta

Buckler's Mead Academy invites applications for Exam Invigilators to join our welcoming team in Yeovil, Somerset. We seek organised, professional people who can help create a calm and controlled examination environment for our students.

Rooms and papers are prepared and supervised, with opportunities to support students with access arrangements. Training is provided, with a view to covering exams across the 2026–27 schedule.

Qualificações

• Experience is not required as full training will be provided.
• Commitment of at least three days per week during exam periods is preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Prepare the exam room, ensuring candidates are seated according to the seating plan.
• Distribute and collect exam papers.
• Supervise candidates during the exam.
• Maintain confidentiality and security of exam materials.
• Prompt, read or scribe for students with exam access arrangements.
• Demonstrate good communication skills, remain clear, calm and professional.
• Be a team player, working collaboratively with the Exams Officer and colleagues.
• Help students in a kind and patient manner.

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Buckler's Mead Academy is seeking organised and professional people to join our friendly team of Exam Invigilators. This is a vital role within our academy, ensuring support for our students to achieve their best outcomes by providing a calm and controlled examination environment.

Dates of exams 2026-27

• Year 11 internal exams - 9th to 20th November 2026
• Year 11 internal exams - 22nd February to 5th March 2027
• Public exams (GCSEs) - 10th May to 18th June 2027
• Year 10 internal exams - 21st June to 2nd July 2027

We are looking for people who are able to commit, ideally to at least three days per week during these periods.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare the exam room, ensuring candidates are seated according to the seating plan.
• Distribute and collect exam papers.
• Supervise candidates during the exam.
• Maintain confidentiality and security of exam materials.
• Prompt, read or scribe for students with exam access arrangements.
• Good communication skills, clear, calm and professional.
• Team player, willing to work collaboratively with the Exams Officer and colleagues.
• A desire to help students in a kind and patient manner.

Experience is not required as full training will be provided.

In return we can offer you the opportunity to work with motivated students, the full support of a dedicated and committed team of staff, a supportive induction programme and ongoing professional development, plus the opportunity to work in a developing academy in a beautiful area of the South West. We seek to significantly invest in developing all of our staff. Having joined the Midsomer Norton Schools' Partnership in September 2021, we are part of a Trust which is often considered the 'market leader' in the South West for school improvement. The successful candidate will benefit from Trust wide opportunities, such as early careers induction, CPD and working with colleagues across Trust schools.

Having achieved another "record-breaking" set of results in summer 2025, and following on from our Ofsted visit in May 2024 where we were judged as a strong 'Good' in all areas, Buckler's Mead Academy is going from strength to strength.

Staff benefits include

• free on-site parking, membership of the Teachers' Pension Scheme and access for all staff to the Employee Assistance Programme "Health Assured", which is a telephone based advice, information and counselling service.
• A selection of meals, snacks and drinks is available for staff to purchase at lunch and break times.

Buckler's Mead Academy is a highly inclusive academy, serving the east of Yeovil, Somerset. Our vision as an academy is "an inspiring education for all". We believe that all members of our community should be given the opportunity to be happy, to achieve, participate and become successful. Our job as professionals is to ensure this happens. All our staff sign up to these aspirations and play a full role in contributing to this vision through inclusive teaching. We seek to recruit dedicated and talented staff, highly committed to making a difference.

The academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to references and a full Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note that we may carry out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of our Safer Recruitment and Due Diligence checks.

Buckler's Mead Academy is an equal opportunities employer. The campus is a no smoking site.