Healthworks - RBKC

Tender description

The Integrated Commissioning Department of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) are seeking to commission a Contractor to deliver a Healthworks service (the Service) within the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Service will be aimed at reducing health inequalities within BAME groups in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Service will provide a programme of activities and promote health and wellbeing amongst BAME communities in areas of deprivation. The Service shall promote a voluntary sector partnership which will work to improve health in BAME communities predominantly in the North of Kensington and Chelsea. The Service shall develop an understanding of individual and group service needs amongst BAME communities responding to identified health priorities from within communities. The service will deliver a range of educational and training groups as well as opportunities for residents to engage in various wellbeing activities. The Service shall improve service user understanding and ability to prevent and/or manage health needs and work with a cross-sector, multi-agency approach to develop relationships with BAME community groups and voluntary sector organisations. The Service shall help communities to work together to identify and address the wider determinants of health and wellbeing and develop an understanding amongst service users about what health services are available and how they can be accessed (identifying routes/pathways to health services).