Health and social work services

Tender description

3 lots including Engagement and Primary intervention, Integrated Primary Care services and Throughcare Services. Anticipated initial contract duration will be 36 months with options to extend for a period or periods not exceeding 2 years offering a potential total contract term of 60 months. a) Health advice and risk management approaches to both voluntary clients and statutory criminal justice clients. b) Active management of service users during transition from the prisons, courts, and young people services into the adult treatment system. c) Proactive engagement with hard-to-reach users with emerging trends, such as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), steroids, and stimulants. d) Act as a gateway into recovery services and provide outreach services. e) Offer harm reduction interventions, which includes needle exchange for both community treatment centres and pharmacies. f) Deliver Naloxone programme. g) Assist community partners, particularly those who are considered as priorities in South Gloucestershire, in developing themselves as effective points of information and pathways. There are two components of the contract — The Single Point of Contact and the Integrated Primary Care Services. — Assist social reintegration of the service users through provisions of education, employment, training, and volunteering. This will include, but is not limited to, proactive joint working with statutory and non-statutory providers, such as the JobCentre Plus, local work programme providers, and further education establishments in the South Gloucestershire area. — Work with service users who successfully gain employment (paid or unpaid) to sustain their ongoing employment and support their recovery journey. — Address the barriers for service users' ability to access and sustain suitable accommodations, and develop a range of their life skills.