Health services

Tender description

The purpose of the occupational health service is to provide a contracted service for all Council employees and workers (approx. 3 000). The service provider will be accessible for staff to access services and as required access workplace locations for health surveillance and assessment services. Full details relating to the services are provided in the tender documents. To participate, suppliers will need to Register as a supplier with ProContract, www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk, then register an interest before obtaining access to the tender documents. In the event of difficulties registering as a supplier, please refer to the System Administrator Proactis support team ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com The contract will be initially for a period of 3 years commencing 1.7.2019 with the option to extend for a further 24 months as per the contract terms and conditions. The contract will provide: — health surveillance, work place risk assessment, — advice to mitigate potential health/injuries within the workplace, — pre-employment assessment as required, — immunisations programmes — role specific, — referral service for independent assessment of staff and staff dependants (where applicable) in relation to pensions and ill health retirement, — statutory duty of care for health, safety and welfare of employees advice. — a focussed and proactive approach for employee work place health and wellbeing, providing insight, data and interventions to reduce absence and increase workplace presentism. And this service would contribute to the following: — to aid and maintain business continuity through the Council’s people resource during periods of high change and ongoing turbulent climate. Specific activity and workforce needs pre, during and post activity relating to the Swindon Programme, — to increase employee presentism and support the continued reduction in employee sickness absence and reach the Councils target of 7 days per FTE by April 2020, — to ensure a value for money for the provision of Occupational Health Services to take into account the financial pressure on public services, — as a benefit as well as providing a healthy workplace to attract and recruit quality candidates and retain staff, — to mitigate and or reduce corporate cost in relation to employer liability and personal litigation. The potential value of this contract is 231 000 GBP over the 3 years and 385 000 GBP over 5 years. Tender responses are required to be submitted no later than 29.4.2019, 14:00 UK Local time via ProContract tender portal — https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/