Social work and related services

Tender description

9 Primary Mental Health Workers are required to develop additional capacity for support, guidance and intervention around emotional well-being within the early help system. This capacity will be created by the commissioning of a single service provider to employ 9 Primary Mental Health Worker posts. The 9 Primary Mental Health Workers will be a core component of the redesigned Emotional Well-being and Mental Health service model from universal to the integrated targeted and specialist for children and young people in Sandwell. These roles will span all aspects of the service meeting the cross cutting priorities of the children's services and the public health agenda by creating additional support to children and families and targeted and specialist provisions by providing step up/ down and maintenance but also enabling appropriate redirection of work when being escalated incorrectly. Following the tender assessment process, as detailed in the Invitation to Tender the contract was awarded to The Kaleidoscope Plus Group.