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Head of Learning Support

Head of Learning Support

Brampton College

North West London

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Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
25 March 2019

Job overview

Salary: Competitive   

Employer: Brampton College

Location: North West London

Contract Term: Permanent

Start: September 2019

Closing Date: 25th March 2019 

Employer website: www.bramptoncollege.com

Brampton College is a leading independent sixth form college, located in North West London. It was founded 27 years ago by the Principal, Bernard Canetti. The College has an outstanding record of academic success and has consistently been the most successful sixth form college in London, coming top of the Department for Education league tables for the past 18 years. The College provides the highest academic standards and individual care in a friendly, encouraging and supportive environment. Currently there are 240 students on roll and 75 members of staff. 

The Head of Learning Support is a new role for Brampton College and an exciting opportunity for the right candidate.  

As our part of our overall commitment to offer comprehensive and outstanding support to our students, we are seeking a dedicated, experienced and passionate individual to lead and co-ordinate Learning Support within the College.  The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the development and implementation of this key area.

The position will include overall responsibility for our provision to students with SEN, psychological difficulties and physical disabilities, to ensure that barriers to learning are mitigated and access arrangements are effectively managed.  

Applicants should be confident working with students aged 15-19, and be experienced in supporting teachers working within this age range.

The appointee will be responsible for overseeing the College’s Wellbeing Programme.  As Head of Learning Support, they will co-ordinate the work of part-time staff contributing to this provision: an Educational Psychologist, a Learning Support teacher, an in-house counsellor and a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist from the Tavistock. They will also work in close consultation with the two Vice Principals regarding advice to colleagues concerning teaching and learning, and with the Exams Officer in relation to access arrangements.  It is expected that the appointee will have achieved, or be willing to work towards achieving, the National SENCO Award qualification (which would be funded by the College).

In addition, this role encompasses the significant opportunity to take secondary responsibility for Child Protection in the College.  Working under the direction of the Designated Safeguarding Lead, the appointee will deliver training, make and advise on referrals to the local safeguarding board, keep accurate records and liaise with outside agencies.  The successful candidate will be expected to undergo the relevant training for this position at the earliest opportunity.

Candidates should have a background in education, and ideally have teaching experience.  While both part and full-time applicants will be considered, it is expected that this role will be a minimum of 0.8.

As Head of Learning Support, you would play an essential role in the academic success of the College, as well as that of our individual students.  We envisage this to be a developing role, and as such it will be a unique opportunity to influence the direction that Learning Support takes within the College.   

For details of how to apply, please download the application pack.

Applications should be made to the Principal’s PA, Mrs Josie Mulkerrin via jmulkerrin@bramptoncollege.com, no later than Monday 25th March 2019. 

The College may choose to interview prior to the closing deadline, so early applications are strongly encouraged. 

It is anticipated that short-listed candidates will be invited to interview within the week commencing Monday 25th March. 

Brampton College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers, the receipt of an  enhanced DBS certificate and other relevant registrations and clearance.


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About Brampton College

The College

Brampton College is a leading independent sixth form college, located in North West London. It was founded 26 years ago by the Principal, Bernard Canetti. The College has an outstanding record of academic success and has consistently been the most successful sixth form college in London, coming top of the Department for Education league tables for the past 17 years. The College provides the highest academic standards and individual care in a friendly, encouraging and supportive environment. Currently there are 245 students on roll and 75 members of staff. 


Location & Facilities  

We are situated in an attractive period building close to the amenities of Hendon. The buildings have been designed to meet our requirements and include four laboratories (all of which have been refurbished in the past few years), a purpose-built art studio, excellent computer facilities, a library, main hall, staff room and student common room. 

We have recently invested in a four-storey extension of the College to provide additional class rooms, tutorial rooms and other facilities, which opened in January 2016. 


Our Results & Inspection Reports

In 2017, 49% of A level results were A*/A grades and 81% were A*-B grades. Brampton College came 3rd nationally in the DfE performance table of independent sixth form colleges in 2017 and has come top of all sixth form colleges in London for the last 17 years, ranked on average point score per A level. 

This year, 64% of our students gained entry to their first choice university with 63% progressing to Russell Group Universities. Current students applying for university places for 2018 are already holding offers from top universities including Oxford, UCL, LSE, Imperial, King’s and Bristol for a variety of competitive courses such as Medicine, Dentistry, Architecture, Economics, Law and English.

The College was inspected by Ofsted in February 2009. Both quality of education overall and the quality of teaching and assessment were judged to be “outstanding”. (Please see downloadable attachment). This judgement of the College was confirmed in our latest inspection by ISI in January 2012, where the academic and other achievements of the students, as well as their personal development and the governance of the College were all judged to be excellent. The report commented: 

‘The College is highly successful in achieving its aims of fostering high academic outcomes and at the same time boosting students’ capacity for vigorous independent academic effort and personal organisation’. The report also said ‘Teaching is excellent… The contribution of the teaching drives the students’ excellent achievement and exceptional academic progress’.  

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