Health and social work services

Tender description

Inverclyde Council is looking to commission a Supported Living Service which meets the Assessed Needs of Service Users due to learning disability, physical disability, sensory impairment, mental illness, addiction or are homeless. The Council wishes to establish a Framework Agreement (herein after referred to as the “Agreement”) that has common content, a common set of Terms and Conditions and standardised funding arrangements. Inverclyde Council operates a Health and Social Care Partnership together with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Inverclyde Council is looking to commission a Supported Living Service to meet the Assessed Needs of Service Users due to learning disability, physical disability, sensory impairment, mental illness, addiction or are homeless. The Supported Living Service must provide responsive support dependent on the fluctuating needs of the Service Users. Support must be provided 7 days a week, 52 weeks per year. The Service Living Service will be provided and operate within the network of health and social care services for Service Users in the aforementioned categories. The model of the Service will be: 1) The Core Service which will cover the majority of the Service and will be informed by the Service User's Assessment of Need. 2) The Enhanced Service which will be purchased in limited circumstances based upon Service User's Assessment of Need which are significantly and demonstrably higher and may require more resources than those provided under the Core Service. 3) Sleepover Service which means the attendance of one Staff member between the hours of 23:01 and 7:59 at the Premises during which time the Staff member is entitled to sleep but will also provide the Core and/or the Enhanced Service to the Service users (the number of which the Council shall be the sole judge) all as more particularly explained and defined in the ITT.