• Creative arts based courses to further personal progress through performance
• Residential and day places
• Courses start September
• 38 weeks per year
• Maximum: 27 residential students; 10 day students
• Age 18 – 25

General Description of College:
Based in Godstone, Surrey, the Orpheus Centre offers excellent residential facilities including supported living accommodation and domiciliary care provision. The Centre delivers arts, vocational and life skills training to young people with physical impairments and learning needs. We work in a user led way, ensuring that our support services meet individual needs, and deliver our educational programme in a way that meets individual goals.

The Curriculum:
The full time Orpheus Centre course is a transitional programme, with four key curriculum areas aimed to equip the learners with the skills, knowledge and understanding to move from a care setting into independent living. The four curriculum areas that are covered are Independence Skills, Arts Skills, Functional Skills and Employment Skills. Each strand has three levels to enable full participation in each area according to individual need. Accredited qualifications offered include Trinity Guildhall Arts Awards and City and Guilds Awards

Specialist Facilities:
All accommodation is en-suite and fully accessible. We also have twelve self-contained flats (Centre Court) which are run under a supported housing model with care being provided by the in-house domiciliary care team. We have a theatre and the Baseline Studio complex comprising of a multi-media studio, and IT studio and a recording studio.

Statements:

1. expertise in working with learners with acquired brain injury
2. expertise in meeting the needs of students with severe learning difficulties
3. extensive use of specialist resources to access information technology
4. an extensive programme of performing arts
5. a supported transition programme into independent or supported living
6. opportunities to improve literacy, numeracy and communication skills
7. a programme to help learners to look after themselves more independently
8. specialist staff to meet personal care requirements
9. a personal development programme
10. a range of vocational courses with opportunities for accreditation.
11. opportunities for learners participate in community activities and to learn about citizenship
12. opportunities to attend local mainstream colleges with support
13. opportunities to improve Information learning technology skills
14. opportunities to learn in small steps
15. waking night residential staff
16. registered care home status
17. nursing services available 24 hours a day
18. day provision
19. opportunities to take part in a wide range of social, leisure and sporting activities
20. in-house physiotherapy

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