Working Well - Work and Health Programme

Tender description

Trafford Council, procuring on behalf of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority wishes to establish onecontract for the Provision of a Work and Health Programme. The GM programme aims to provide a holistic approach to supporting individuals into work, incorporatingsupport for clients with barriers such as; mental health, long term health conditions, musculoskeletal conditionsand issues with substance misuse and addiction. The service will offer clients access to a range of skills support, work experience, employment support andsupport with psycho-social issues that often prevent people moving forward. The GM programme will incorporate the key principles and learning from the Working Well Pilot and Expansion and include: • Personalised Support: this Procurement invites providers to bid for the central aspect of the programme– provision of personalised support. They will act as the prime conduit to for integrated services for Working Well clients. Providers will support clients to access an appropriate range of services and provide intensive, bespoke packages of support to ensure that their personal barriers to employment and progression are tackled comprehensively and in an integrated and sequenced way. • Integration: GM recognises that clients will have multiple, complex needs and provides the structure to help resolve these by ensuring that keyworkers are properly integrated with local services in order to succeed. • Market shaping: The GM programme will continue to provide an opportunity to demonstrate that locally commissioned and managed services are more able to integrate and achieve better outcomes for clients • Enhancing the ‘eco system’ of work, health and skills: the programme will continue to fundamentally change how skills, health and employment services function together, by offering a seamless, co-ordinated and sequenced package of services to the client enabling the achievement of multiple outcomes. Personalised support for those with the most significant barriers to employment sits at the heart of this ‘eco-system’, facilitating the client journey. • Evaluation: There will be a robust evaluation of the programme to ensure wider application of successful delivery and outcomes, which will also inform development of future commissioning within GM and nationally The Procurement relates to health, social and related services which are listed in Schedule 3 of the PublicContracts Regulations 2015 as a social service. This Procurement is Conducted under the Light Touch Regime,therefore subject to Limited regulation and will be conducted in accordance with regulations 75 to 76. Keywords: Work, Skills, Health, Benefits , Greater Manchester, Unemployment