Contract notice: Health and social work services Tender, United Kingdom - 38069187

Procurement Summary

Country : United Kingdom

Summary : Contract notice: Health and social work services

Deadline : 13 Dec 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 38069187

Document Ref. No. : 545526-2019

Competition : ICB

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : NHS TOWER HAMLETS CCG
Office Name: NHS Tower Hamlets CCG
Address: 2nd Floor Alderney Building, Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Road
Town: London
Postal Code: E1 4DG
Contact Point: Ms Dorothy Williams

Phone: +44 2030495878
United Kingdom
Email :dorothy.williams1@nhs.net
URL :https://www.towerhamletsccg.nhs.uk/

Tender Details

Object of the contract
Health and social work services

Description: Contract notice: Health and social work services

Authority Type: Body governed by public law
Contact Nature: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
Document: Contract notice
Regulation: European Union
Award criteria: Not applicable
CPV code: 85000000, 85000000
CPV Description: Health and social work services.

PRJ-875 Tower Hamlets Individual Placement and Support

Reference Number : DN446663

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence based model of employment support for people with mental health problems.

The overall vision for this service is to enable people with mental health problems to be able to enjoy a good quality of life, reduce health inequalities, remain independent and in control, be included as members of society and, most importantly, realise their potential for recovery.

Even where individuals do not succeed in achieving a job outcome, the service aims to develop a recovery focus that will enable service users to engage more actively in their communities and achieve improved wellbeing in other ways.

Service objectives

— to provide employment advice to care coordinators, employers and other interested stakeholders,

— to challenge low expectations and stigma relating to mental health, and raise awareness about employability of people with long term mental health problems,

— to provide directly or through partner agencies careers advice and accurate benefits advice to enable people to make informed decisions about taking up and keeping employment,

— to act as a key link or `bridge` between mental health services and employers,

— to promote in appropriate cases the take up of personal budgets to purchase further care and support relating to employment and recovery goals.

The service will deploy a minimum of 6 employment specialists (ES`s) into community mental health teams and other secondary mental health services including one ES allocated to early intervention services and 2 ES`s allocated to the Tower Hamlets Enhanced Primary Care Service. The ES`s will provide employment support with high fidelity to the principles of Individual Placement and Support (IPS). IPS is a replicable, evidence-based, supported employment programme that has been shown to deliver superior employment and health outcomes for people with severe mental health problems.

The IPS approach is based on 8 key principles:

(a) it aims to get people into competitive employment;

(b) it is open to all those who want to work;

(c) it tries to find jobs consistent with people`s preferences;

(d) it works quickly;

(e) it brings employment specialists into clinical teams;

(f) employment specialists develop relationships with employers based upon a person`s work preferences;

(g) it provides time unlimited, individualised support for the person and their employer;

(h) benefits counselling is included.

There is a requirement for the local provider to become part of the centre for mental health`s centres of excellence programme over the course of the contract.

The contract value is up to 2 040 000 GBP inclusive VAT over a 5 year contract term, consisting of an initial 4 years + a possible further 1 year. (4 + 1 years).

Full details of the requirement can be found in the specification.

The services that are the subject of this notice are covered by the light touch regime and set out at Schedule 3 (social and other specific services) of PCR 2015. If the value of the contract is over 615 278 GBP the contracting authority must advertise it in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), although there is flexibility as to the design of the remainder of the procurement process. The commissioner is not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations. The procedure that the commissioner is following will be set out in future documents yet to be published. The process will be similar to open procedure process under the regulations but, for avoidance of doubt, the commissioner is not running the process as though the open procedure under the regulations applies and so reserves the right to depart from that procedure at any point.

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Internet address (URL): https://www.towerhamletsccg.nhs.uk/

Documents

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