South Gloucestershire Council Integrated Healthy Lifestyles and Wellbeing Service – Wellbeing Component

Tender description

The service will develop and co-ordinate a broad range of support for individuals together with activities and events that prevent mental illness and support good mental wellbeing using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing model. Delivering a programme of community and workplace based activities that support individuals to make sustainable connections, giving them the relevant level of support according to their needs. Individuals can self refer or be referred by a range of community and health care professionals including social care, libraries, advice centres, GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals through social prescribing. Working to embed social prescribing within ongoing practice. Using asset based community development to empower people to start and develop provision to meet locally identified needs. The scheme will identify any gaps in provision and broker appropriate solutions by weaving in resources from different parts of the community to strengthen local resources. As well as working with geographical communities the service will support specific communities of interest. Recruiting and training volunteers, both individuals and within community organisations, to better understand and address local health needs including providing support and signposting for those with a health need. Build upon the success of the South Gloucestershire Council health inequalities grants and manage a ring fence grant budget (£12,000pa) to support small local interventions that reduce health inequalities. Gather and report data to demonstrate impact and inform service developments. Using this data to better deploy resources in response to need and inform a continuous improvement cycle. Incuding the South Gloucestershire Council self reported wellbeing measurement tool. Demonstrate a collaborative approach that makes linkages with partners to jointly deliver activities that affect the wider determinants of health and demonstrate a positive impact on individual outcomes. This will include working with: partners in the council based healthy lifestyles component of the service, community provision, housing, debt, other advice services, the Department of Work and Pensions and other partners. Keywords: Wellbeing, Healthy Lifestyles, Mental Health, Emotional Wellbeing, Keeping Well