Anyone work as an exam invigilator?

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I resigned from my most recent job a couple of years ago and have been a SAHP since then.
I'd like to ease back in to working but an extremely horrible situation in my previous job has left me feeling very anxious and with low self esteem about my professional capabilities.
I've just seen a job advertised with a local secondary school for an exam invigilator which sounds great from the very limited information provided on the job description.
Does anyone have any experience within this field? How much of a stressful environment is it?
If anyone could share their experiences in this role I'd be extremely grateful.
Thanks in advance.

I have just started after a 45 year career in civil service. I Liked the flex to offer my own availability -to suit grandchildren sitting and other activities. not all my offers have been taken up so far. I’ve just done one half day session at local grammar school Following a LOT of training stuff, and have No more for a month. Lots of processes to follow but unless you are the ‘lead ‘ there is little paperwork . One 2 hours with 40 students and one hour with 3 additional need students. It is boring - no reading , no phones allowed, and lots of walking round( no sitting) which I hadn’t realised and wasn’t made clear in advert. despite being in south east we are only paid minimum wage. I’ll give it a term and see . Not really got to know anyone yet as you can’t talk in an exam!

I did it as a transition back into work as well. Bit boring to start with but if you r any nous about you, the interesting bits come. We had to be there for 8.30 for a 9am start or 12.30 for a 1pm start. It did just about fit with school hours for me but only just...

I'm a teacher. We used to have to invigilate internal exams. It was very boring. We would walk around trying to spell words with our steps🤣

Invigilating a long exam is super boring. You have to pay attention to the kids but you can't let yourself drift off and stare at the wall in case someone needs paper etc.

There will be training before you are let loose in an exam. There are all kinds of regulations and what you think is common sense may work v differently in an exam environment

If you don't know the answer to something, defer to the exam officer rather than try and guess is my only advice.

It's a good way to get an idea of the school environment, if you think you'd like to work in a school in some capacity & get some experience.

But as someone who does work in a school I would rather clean toilets than invigilate exams. I have almost fallen asleep from boredom on more than one occasion. It's a good job I only get asked to help out in a pinch!

Invigilating is great if you are in walking distance to the school and/or don't mind sitting around reading a book etc in between exams when you aren't paid.
It's not great if you have additional expenses though, childcare fees etc would wipe out what you earn straight away.

Exams are carried out during school hours at secondary schools, unless there are clashes of exams and the odd student has to do theirs after the rest of the cohort, this doesn't happen very often though and would only need a couple of invigilating staff to stay.

Exam timings are generally December Mocks, March Mock, May-June GCSEs, June-July wider school testing / year 10 mocks - these are often done just after GCSEs as the tables are already set out, the school may use their own teaching staff for Key stage 3 / wider school testing to keep costs down

I’ve done it in the past. It’s very boring and piecemeal but fine.