Exams Invigilator

Astrea Academy Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Trinity Academy in Bristol seeks an Exam Invigilator to support examination periods with strict adherence to JCQ regulations and Trinity procedures. You will ensure fair access, secure handling of papers, and orderly conduct in the exam rooms.

The role requires reliability, flexible availability during key exam slots, and strong communication with students and staff. Training is provided, with duties spanning before, during, and after examinations.

Qualifications

• Be reliable, flexible and readily available during main examination periods.
• Have effective communication skills and good interpersonal skills.
• Understand and confirm JCQ regulations and confidentiality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Conduct examinations in accordance with JCQ, awarding body and Trinity Academy regulations.
• Report to exams officer and brief before each exam session.
• Keep exam papers and materials secure before, during and after exams.
• Admit candidates into exam rooms under formal conditions and identify them as required.
• Supervise candidates during examinations and record any incidents or irregularities.
• Instruct candidates and manage questions; ensure adherence to timings and procedures.

Skills

Attention to detail

Reliability

Flexible hours

Communication skills

Tools

Email

Job description

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School / Office 2800 - Trinity Academy

Salary Hourly rate of £13.68 comprising £12.21 plus £1.47 holiday pay.

The job requirements are detailed below.

Job details

Salary Hourly rate of £13.68 comprising £12.21 plus £1.47 holiday pay.

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 the end of June. Any other exam periods during the year as required.

About Us

Amplify Education is a dynamic new multi-academy trust of 22 schools across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, formed through the thoughtful and planned merger of TiLA and CST. United by a shared vision, we are a bold voice for Bristol - committed to building belief in every young person, expanding opportunities, nurturing potential, and strengthening citizenship.

We are ambitious, reflective, and collaborative - driven to improve outcomes for young people while working together, learning from one another and continually strengthening our practice. If you are looking to make a real difference within a forward-thinking and supportive Trust, Amplify Education could be the place for you.

We invite you to join our team at Trinity Academy. Trinity is a highly oversubscribed free school that opened in 2019. We are a values based community that focuses on the learning of all students and staff, that cares deeply for our young people and each other and that is committed to co-curricular enrichment. Our stated goal is to be a +1 school for progress and as such, we are looking for an exceptional learning support assistant to join us in our mission.

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 all candidates have an equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities
• Ensure the security of examination materials before, during and after the examination

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
• Be a confident and a reassuring presence to candidates in examination rooms
• Give instructions and manage situations involving different groups of people
• Use basic IT skills (use of email, mobile phone messaging etc.)
• 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
• Admit candidates into exam rooms under formal examination conditions
• Give full attention to conducting the examinations properly
• 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

During examinations:

• Supervise and observe candidates at all times and be vigilant throughout 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
• Deal with candidate questions according to the regulations

After examinations:

• Instruct candidates in finishing their examinations and collect examination scripts and materials
• Dismiss candidates from the examination room
• Check candidates’ names on scripts, match the details on the attendance register
• 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:
• centre supervision of examination timetable clash candidates between examination 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’
• 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

If you would like to find out more about the school including FAQs, please visit the school website.

The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include:

• Ability to ensure and deliver effective safeguarding
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are \"spent\" unless they are \"protected\" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.