Examination Invigilator
Aurora Eccles School
Norfolk
- Salary:
- Hourly rate: £11.72 per hour (plus 13% holiday pay)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Apply by:
- 31 January 2025
Job overview
Bank/Casual Examination Invigilator
Location: Quidenham, Norwich, NR16 2NZ
Hourly rate: £11.72 per hour (plus 13% holiday pay)
Hours: Flexible / casual hours available
Aurora Eccles School:
We’re currently looking for an Examination Invigilator to join our team. Working on a bank adhoc basis. The successful candidate will support the Examinations officer to ensure the smooth running of our examinations.
Part of the Aurora Group, Aurora Eccles school in Quidenham, Norwich provides day placements for students aged 11 to 16 years primarily with communication and interaction difficulties or specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia. Some may be on the autistic spectrum or have anxieties and difficulties that create barriers to learning.
To take a virtual look around our schools please click here: Eccles Virtual Tour
The Role:
To protect the integrity of examinations, helping to ensure optimal exam conditions for all students. To uphold and safeguard the regulations and requirements of the relevant examining bodies and JCQ.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career whilst you help shape and develop our provision to achieve this.
Key Duties:
- Assisting with setting-up examination venues by laying out stationery, equipment and examination papers in accordance with strict procedures
- Assisting candidates prior to the start of examinations by directing them to their seats and advising them about possessions permitted in examination venues
- Offering advice and guidance to unregistered candidates without allocated seats
- Ensuring that candidates do not talk once inside examination venues
- Invigilating during examinations, dealing with queries raised by candidates and dealing with examination irregularities in accordance with strict procedures
- Checking attendance during examinations
- Escorting candidates from venues during the examinations as required, and supervising candidates whilst outside examination venues
- Collecting and collating scripts at the end of the examination in accordance with strict procedures
- Assisting with the preparation of script envelopes
- Supervising candidates leaving examination venues, ensuring that candidates do not remove equipment or stationery from the venue and ensuring that candidates leave venues in an orderly and quiet manner
- Acting as Readers and Scribes to support those students with Access Arrangements (training will be provided)
Please note that duties will vary and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of Eccles when required. Please see the link below for our full job description:
Job Description - Examination Invigilator
Skills and Qualifications
- An understanding of examination processes would be desirable.
- Effective oral/written communication skills
- The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- The ability to follow strict procedure and regulations
- You need to have excellent interpersonal and a positive attitude to work
- Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.
- Knowledge and experience of pupils with SEMH, ASD.
Due to the location of the school, candidates must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to their own vehicle.
How to Apply:
You can apply online by completing our online application form.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
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About Aurora Eccles School
Welcome to our Special Needs Secondary School in Quidenham, Norfolk
Take a virtual tour here: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=BV9VRe6dfQj
As Principal of the site that Aurora Eccles shares with its primary counterpart, Aurora White House School, I am delighted to introduce you to our wonderful school community.
It is our aim to provide an environment in which young people can achieve their potential and make meaningful, informed choices about every aspect of their lives. Through our highly skilled teams of teaching, support and therapeutic staff, we offer personalised, tailored interventions to help students of all ages make genuine progress in their academic, social and emotional development.
We are proud to be recognised as the ‘go to provider’ for the local authority here in Norfolk; the trust that is placed in us, by families and professionals alike, is testament to the quality and scope of education and support that we offer to every student in our care. We hope you enjoy reading about us; and we look forward to welcoming you soon.
Arabella Hardy, Site Principal, Aurora Eccles and Aurora White House School
Our School
Aurora Eccles is an independent, specialist day school for students aged 11-18 who have experienced difficulties in mainstream settings, either as a result of specific learning difficulties or more complex communication and interaction difficulties (including those associated with autism spectrum conditions).
We have high expectations for all our students and we encourage them to expect more for themselves. We offer a personalised package of education and support to each student, designed around the needs identified in their Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Our ambition is to give our students all the skills they need to lead an independent, fulfilling adult life. We do this not only by providing opportunities for them to achieve academically, but also by helping them develop the practical skills necessary to manage their own physical, emotional and social wellbeing and to understand their place in the world.
The Aurora Eccles journey
When a young person arrives at Aurora Eccles, we commit to exploring ways of helping them fulfil their potential in every area of their life.
We begin by rebuilding their faith in school and education, by creating an environment where they feel safe and able to learn. We take a positive approach to behaviour management, encouraging the development of a strong sense of identity while promoting effective interaction with others.
Individual pastoral support and care for each student is provided by their form teacher, who also has regular contact with their parents and carers to offer support, guidance and a link to other staff and departments. For students requiring higher levels of support, provision can be made – either full time or periodically – to facilitate participation in school activities.
Throughout their time with us, students have an opportunity to achieve a range of qualifications, from pre-entry-level certificates through to higher-grade GCSEs, depending on their needs, abilities and interests.
By the time they leave us, each of our students will be in a position to make meaningful, informed choices about their own future, whether that is by accessing further education, or through appropriate vocational training or employment.
Our Facilities
Students at Aurora Eccles benefit from access to facilities including a music room, science laboratories, cookery room, and technology and art studios, and enjoy regular use of our extensive sports and recreation facilities, including an indoor swimming pool, large sports field, activity centre and climbing wall.
All students take part in a range of individual and team sports, with both inter-house and external fixtures against other schools planned regularly throughout the academic year.
Set in 34 acres of beautiful countryside, Aurora Eccles also has a wealth of exciting outdoor learning spaces for students, including an area of magnificent private woodland, which is used for our Outdoor and Woodland Learning (OWLs) programme.
Incorporating a range of adventurous activities delivered by qualified Forest School practitioners, the OWLs programme offers students the freedom to be the architects of their own learning, all within a natural environment.
The learning experience for students at Aurora Eccles does not end at the school gate. All our students participate in school visits, trips and community projects to bring the curriculum subjects to life, and are encouraged to support our staff in organising them.
From Year 10 onwards, our students also have the opportunity to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme, through which they can experience new challenges and further develop their communication and teamwork skills.
Our Curriculum
Students at Aurora Eccles enjoy a broad curriculum that mirrors the experience of their mainstream peers, based around the core subjects of English, mathematics, science and humanities along with specialist subjects including computing and ICT, art and multimedia, and design and technology.
We also offer all our students opportunities to develop non-academic ‘life skills’ such as cookery, gardening and construction.
Our older students have the option to complete the ASDAN Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (CoPE), a substantial, nationally recognised qualification in skills development.
The CoPE enables students to practise, develop and demonstrate six important skills that are required for success in higher education, training or employment: teamwork, problem solving, discussion, research, oral presentation and self-management.
Integrated therapy
As well as academic and skill development opportunities, we offer a range of therapeutic interventions designed to help our students overcome barriers to participation in education.
Discrete interventions, including speech and language therapy and occupational therapy, are delivered by our on-site team of highly skilled clinical staff with support from visiting therapy specialists.
These interventions sit alongside a classroom experience which integrates therapeutic approaches on a one-to-one, small group and whole class basis.
Our Outcomes
We are proud to list evidence of the progress and performance of our students (for the previous academic year) below:
· Pupils achieved an average of 6.5 qualifications
· 100% of pupils passed Level 1 Vocational Pathway
· 83% of pupils achieved a Maths qualification, with one pupil achieving Grade 9
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