Exam Invigilators
Woking College
Woking, Surrey
- New
- Salary:
- £11.00 per hour (inclusive of holiday pay). Hours will vary depending on the number of examinations and the number of students taking exams each session.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Start date:
- Dec 2024 and Jan to Feb 2025 and/or May to June 2025
- Apply by:
- 7 November 2024
Job overview
Rated "Outstanding" in every area, by Ofsted in November 2022, Woking College are proud to provide excellence in sixth form education.
"Staff feel proud to work at the College. They are exceptionally positive about the culture leaders have created. They describe leaders as visible, approachable and highly focussed on staff wellbeing. Leaders celebrate achievement frequently in staff forums which helps staff to feel recognised, highly valued and a member of the Woking College family."
The Role
The College requires Exam Invigilators to oversee and supervise students during the December 2024/January 2025 and/or Summer 2025 examination period. Invigilation opportunities may also arise at other times during the year.
Invigilating involves supervising examinations according to the examination boards’ regulations, distributing question and answer papers, ensuring that the students enter and leave exam rooms calmly and dealing with student queries. We expect Invigilators to approach the job in a serious and professional manner; punctuality and reliability are essential. In addition, Invigilators need to be able to communicate effectively with people. This is an active role and will require Invigilators to be on their feet and walking up/down during the exam in the sports hall or equivalent examination room.
Salary: £11.00 per hour (inclusive of holiday pay). Hours will vary depending on the number of examinations and the number of students taking exams each session.
Training: Successful candidates will be required to complete a compulsory 3-hour online training course.
Timings: Invigilators must be available at the following times:
- Morning session: Duration of exams can take up to 3 hours 45 min. Candidates must be on the College site from 8.00am, and be available until 12.45pm
- Afternoon session: Duration of exams can take up to 3 hours 15 min. Candidates must be on the College site from 12.30pm, and be available until 4.45pm.
Key dates: Invigilators will generally work either a morning or an afternoon session, occasionally both if it is a busy examination day.
December 2024/January 2025: the exam period runs from 2 to 4 December 2024 and 6 January to 6 February 2025.
Candidates will need to be available for a substantial number of sessions during this time period, otherwise your application may not be successful.
Summer 2025: the exam period runs from Monday 12 May 2025 to late June 2025 (excluding half term: Monday 26 May to Friday 30 May 2025).
Candidates will need to be available for a substantial number of sessions during the key summer exam period (finalised dates will be available shortly), otherwise your application may not be successful.
Application Information:
To Apply: Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form via the College website.
CVs will not be accepted on their own. Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK.
Please ensure education and employment history are completed in full, gaps in employment must be accounted for under the section entitled “Periods when not working”. We would like to see your passion for the role and the College in your supporting statement, please use this opportunity to include personal skills, experience relevant to the post, and reasons why you feel you would be successful if this post.
Closing date: 9am, Monday 30 October 2023
Interviews: to be held shortly after the closing date
For further information, to have an initial discussion, or to return a completed Application Form, please contact: Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: recruitment@woking.ac.uk Tel: 01483 761036
Important information:
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and successful applicants will be subject to Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.
The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2023 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.
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About Woking College
Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1700 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful focus will always be to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning. We have a very broad range of enrichment activities, in order to greatly enhance the cultural capital and future prospects of our students. We place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey and we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.
Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!
We believe that our physical environment should also inspire our staff and students. All have benefitted hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Art building in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block opened in early 2023, and a further £3m project working collaboratively with the adjacent community centre opened in September 2023 enhancing our Performing Arts facilities even further.
We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, arguably the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.
With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.
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