Orchard Hill College is an Outstanding Specialist College offering life-changing learning opportunities to students. We have centres across London and Surrey where committed, specialist teams deliver a range of programmes to meet the needs of our students.
Students who study with us have a wide range of needs including:
- Profound and multiple learning disabilities
- Moderate learning difficulties
- Physical and sensory impairments
- Mental health and/or emotional difficulties
- Communication and behavioural difficulties
- Social and communication disorders e .g. Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Specific medical needs.
All students are individual and each programme is as unique as they are. Our programmes are designed to support and empower each student to achieve their aspirations and goals, whilst developing skills to become more independent members of their community.
We offer different courses and you will be assessed to ensure you are on the most appropriate course:
- Foundation Skills for Life
- Skills for Work and Living
We also offer WorkStart courses which is a package of employment courses from Orchard Hill College. WorkStart gives you the opportunity to gain work experience and qualifications. Our Job Coaches will work with you one-to-one to get you on track to achieving your ambitions.
We offer the following courses:
- Pathway to Employment
- Preparation for Employment
- Short Courses
Supported Internships – we offer the below courses with our partners:
- DFN Project Search Supported Internship Achieving for Children, Kingston
- DFN Project Search Supported Internship; Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals
- DFN Project Search Supported Internship; The Hillingdon Hospitals
- DFN Project Search Supported Internship with London Borough of Hillingdon
- DFN Project Search Supported Internship with London Borough of Lambeth
- DFN Project Search Supported Internship with NHS England.