Health services

Tender description

This tender is for the provision of occupational health services for various University of Chester sites. The University's Faculty of Health and Social Care provides professional preparation and pre-registered programmes in nursing and midwifery and will be overseeing the Student Medical Services. In addition, there are occupational health requirements for other cohorts of students within the areas of education, and social work as well as a minimal amount of biomedical sciences. The Faculty's Pre-registration Nursing provision is delivered by a cross-departmental team of staff, with both core and field-specific (adult, children, learning disability or mental health) content. The Faculty is committed to ensuring the well-being of its students and as a result requires the provision of an Occupational Health Service for the above-mentioned students. Lot 1a — Employee Core Services & On-Demand Services Human Resources (HR) has a key role to play in supporting the Senior Management Team to create and maintain a positive organisational climate that will give effect to the Corporate Plan and other institutional strategies. The activities of the Service are inextricably linked with supporting and contributing to the University's strategic objectives. HR also provides a service to its client groups encompassing a range of operational and transactional activities. The promotion of health and well-being is an integral part of University culture. The Provider/s will provide all the services as and when required by the University to support the aims and its policies listed within the tender document. Lot 1b — Staff and Student Counselling and Physiotherapy Services. HR refer employees for counselling or physiotherapy services (related to job role) on site as required. The team require this service to be reactive to short notice requests and in the case of physiotherapy services, to support the rehabilitation of the employee back into the workplace (if absent) within as short a time period as possible. The University's Student Support and Guidance welfare team provide students with the option to attend counselling services as required. Student Support and Guidance will maintain an overview of referrals into the Counselling provision delivered by the Occupational Health Service.