Salary:
£13.85 per hour
Job type:
Full Time, Casual
Apply by:
6 February 2025
Job overview
We are looking to hire casual Exam Invigilators for various exam periods to help supervise the conduct of students in examinations at Harris Academy South Norwood. Hours of work will be as notified in advance by the Examinations Officer.
About Us
If you are looking for a diverse school with clear & effective behaviour policies & systems, a visible & supportive leadership team, useful but not onerous CPD, & frequent opportunities for promotion, then we are the school for you. We believe that our students need great outcomes to open doors that will help them make the best of their lives. Our students behave well, & so they achieve well. This is a product of our excellent behaviour systems. We have 6 non-teaching Heads of Year who support behaviour & welfare & run a fully centralised detention system. Exemplary behaviour can only be achieved through a highly visible Senior Leadership team, who are constantly touring the Academy. CPD is bespoke, first & foremost in the subject & grounded in tried & tested methods of effective teaching such as modelling, questioning, literacy, practice & consolidation. As part of our CPD offer, we have access to the world-leading Harris NPQ training programmes for leaders. We believe the best approach to workload & wellbeing is to run a highly effective school that gives people purpose & avoids unnecessary work. Our sizeable department teams mean that despite our excellent retention rates, opportunities for promotion are frequent & exciting. I really hope that you'll be joining our team. Our four values of endeavour, kindness, respect & responsibility are at the heart of everything we do.
HASN is an extremely popular 11-19 academy. We have 180 students in each year group, a size that enables us to know what each of our students need. We deliver a broad & challenging curriculum to all our students in a calm & well-ordered environment. We have high expectations of all members of the school community. This is reflected in our consistently high student performance at GCSE, progression to post 16 study at our sixth form & then on to some of the best universities in the country. Last year 188 of our year 11 students chose to remain with us for the sixth form.
Boasting one of the most unique school buildings in the country, Harris Academy, Clocktower perfectly blends classic British architecture with modern contemporary design. With our main building built newly in 2007, HASN is a modern Academy that boasts open plan corridors & skylight panels across the main building. The classic Stanley building dating back to 1907 provides charm & a history that compliments the new stylings of the main building & provides a reminder of the scholarly traditional values that a Harris Academy South Norwood education is built upon. We are very fortunate to have excellent transport links to central London, some trains get to London Bridge in 11 minutes, & just four minutes on the train from East Croydon. The Academy is a six-minute walk from Norwood Junction train station.
Main Areas of Responsibility
You will support the Exams Officer with the day-to-day operation of examination venues and other examination processes, with activities including:
* Assisting with setting-up examination venues by laying out stationery, equipment and examination papers
* Assisting candidates prior to the start of examinations
* Ensuring that candidates do not talk once inside examination venues
* Invigilating during examinations, dealing with queries raised by candidates and dealing with irregularities
* Checking attendance during examinations
* Recording details of late arrivals
* Escorting candidates from venues during the examinations and supervising candidates outside examination venues
* Collecting and collating scripts at the end of the examination
* Assisting with the preparation of script envelopes
* Supervising candidates leaving examination venues, ensuring that candidates do not remove equipment or stationery from the venue without authorisation and that they leave venues in an orderly and quiet manner
* Assisting with the packing of examination papers, stationery and equipment before examinations, and the delivery to and from venues as appropriate
* Assisting with the preparation of seating plans
Qualifications & Experience
For this role, you will need:
* Access to an email account so invigilation schedules can be arranged with the Examinations Officer
* A positive interest in young people and their education
* The ability to be flexible
* Accuracy and a high level of attention to detail
* Confident communication skills
* A firm but fair attitude
* The ability to work well under pressure
* Physical fitness appropriate to tasks required (exam papers can be heavy in bulk, and there is a lot of walking involved)
Next Steps
If you have any questions about this opportunity, please send us an email, or call to arrange a conversation.
Before applying, please download the Job Pack for full details on the job responsibilities and person specification. This will be helpful for you when completing your application, and throughout the recruitment process.
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we may interview and offer to a candidate before the closing date. Please note that we only accept applications submitted before the closing date via our careers website.
Rewards & Benefits
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.
Safeguarding Notice
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Equal Opportunities
The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
We value the diversity of our staff and students, and everyone at the Harris Federation is equally valued and respected. We aim to be an inclusive employer that reflects the communities we serve. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment.
About Harris Academy South Norwood
* Harris Academy South Norwood
* Cumberlow Avenue, South Norwood
* London
* SE25 6AE
* United Kingdom
Harris Academy South Norwood is an 11-18 Academy for 1,100 students that opened in September 2007, located in a purpose built, state-of-the-art new building.
Harris Academy South Norwood is an outstanding Academy and has excellent facilities for teaching and learning. We have the highest standards of behaviour and expectations. We have been recognised by the DFE as being one of the best schools in England for our type of intake and one of the most effective schools in the country, with pupil progress in the top 1% nationally. Our programmes for professionally developing staff are first class.
The Academy is a happy, hard-working and highly ambitious community in which students and staff treat one another with care and respect. It combines traditional values of discipline and good manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. We offer a broad and balanced curriculum with a specialism in Enterprise.
Our Sixth Form has grown to be the largest in the Federation, from 43 students in 2007 to 380 in 2013. We are full in all other year groups and we believe this is a testament to the reputation and continued success of the academy.
Academy Ethos
A vision for every teacher, every student and every leader to be outstanding: the expectation is to foster a culture of academic excellence, ambition and aspiration. All students yet in particular our most vulnerable are nurtured and cared for in a holistic way.
There is a culture of high expectations for all students, which underpins every development in the Academy. Harris Academy South Norwood has developed flexible and creative approaches to teaching and learning that raises standards for all.
Using the specialism of Business and Enterprise six core principles have been established that are recognised across the Academy as promoting enterprising learning:
* Learning first
* High aspirations
* Business environment
* Celebrate success
* Growing confidence
* Spirit of enterprise
An Academy ethos of encouragement is central to the promotion of good learning. Rewards are one of the means of achieving this, playing a motivational role in helping students to realise that good behaviour and high achievement is valued.
Academy Specialism
Enterprise
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