FULL TIME, PERMANENT

This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapy Aide (OTA) to join our team as we continue with our multidisciplinary offer for young people transitioning between children’s services and adults. We are a multi-disciplinary team working with Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Social Care Practitioners.
What you’ll be doing
As one of the Occupational Therapy Aide in the service, you will lead the way to ensuring the best possible outcomes for young people aged 14-25 years in our service, supporting and empowering young people and their carers by developing independent living skills at the right time through an Occupational Therapy lens.
You will enable young people to achieve positive outcomes and independence by supporting the development of occupational performance skills, prescribing equipment, minor adaptations, and supporting within our Early Help model in the Transitions hub.
You will enjoy supporting a consistency of approach in the completion of support conversations, Care Act assessments and support plans leading to the commissioning of services to meet identified need where non-commissioned support, assistive technology, equipment, or wider community assets to ensure independence outcomes.
In Bristol, we are committed to hearing the young person’s voice, and we have a newly created Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for our Transitions Hub model.

The Transitions Hub is our city-wide commitment to supporting seamless transitions for young people progressing to adulthood, and within the Hub, the Young Adults Transition Service have a key role in transitions casework and in providing early support. The hub is a multi-professional approach to practice which promotes:

• Collaboration, prevention and early help
• Sharing of learning and expertise
• Working together to identify creative solutions; and
• Strategically shaping services to meet the needs of young people.

The Young Adults Transitions Service are a citywide team who can work with young people with additional needs from age 14-25 to support them to be as independent as possible as they reach adulthood.
We complete Care Act assessments and support our young person through Occupational Therapy lens to maximise independent living. We also complete support planning to support the commissioning of services to meet the young person’s needs. We work alongside families and carers where we can as we understand the value in supporting a whole family approach.
The teamwork from a multi-disciplinary perspective and work in partnership with a wide range of agencies and professionals including health, education, children’s services, housing, provider services and the police.

The Transitions Hub is our city-wide commitment to supporting seamless transitions for young people progressing to adulthood, and within the Hub, the Young Adults Transition Service have a key role in transitions casework and in providing early support. The hub is a multi-professional approach to practice which promotes:

• Collaboration, prevention and early help
• Sharing of learning and expertise
• Working together to identify creative solutions; and
• Strategically shaping services to meet the needs of young people