Health and social work services

Tender description

The service will provide residential care and step-down supported accommodation, for men aged 18-65 years with complex mental health needs, who have been in contact with the criminal justice system services as a result of their mental ill-health, and have had stays in a secure hospital or prison setting. This service aims to facilitate the transition out of hospital or prison back into the community through providing a supportive and safe setting from which residents can continue the process of rehabilitation. Over a period of time, residents will be supported to step down to less intensive support within the mental health accommodation pathway, or to alternative housing options, wherever possible. The step-down accommodation service will support people who are stepping down from residential care towards independent living but still require support in order to maintain their tenancies, manage secondary diagnoses such as substance misuse, and prevent hospital relapse or re-offending and to live independently within the community. Staff will be on-site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will provide support to develop skills for independent living and to engage with the community. As the step down accommodation is an independent-living style project, staff should either be on site or able to be on site within 5 minutes of a call out being made. Comprehensive support plans will be in place to ensure residents have the right support to maintain and/or enhance the skills they already possess in, but not limited to, the following areas: — daily life skills for independent living, — engaging with social and/or recreational activities, — finance and budgeting, — maintaining health and wellbeing, including engaging with specialist mental health services and specialist substance misuse services, — medication management, — nutrition. Any successful provider will need to provide their own properties in order to deliver the service. Organisations wishing to tender for this service will be registered with the care quality commission and have requisite experience of: — delivering residential care and supported accommodation services for people with mental health high support needs, forensic history and dual diagnosis, such as substance misuse, — delivering services as a Registered Social Landlord or as a support provider.