Health and social work services

Tender description

Tender for Ealing’s Integrated Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service. For adults and young people: London Borough of Ealing (LBE) would like to invite interested providers to tender for Ealing’s Integrated Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service for Adults and Young People. The tender will be published on the Due North Tendering Portal on or shortly after 4th June 2019. The duration of the contract will be 5 years plus one possibility of two year extension, and the estimated value is 3 350 000 GBP. LBE is commissioning an integrated adult and young people’s drug and alcohol treatment service to work in partnership with other key agencies to provide a flexible, holistic community-based service across the borough. Tender for Ealing’s Integrated Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service. For adults and young people: London Borough of Ealing (LBE) would like to invite interested providers to tender for Ealing’s Integrated Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service for Adults and Young People. The tender will be published on the Due North Tendering Portal on or shortly after 4.6.2019. The duration of the contract will be 5 years plus one possibility of two year extension, and the estimated value is 3 350 000 GBP. LBE is commissioning an integrated adult and young people’s drug and alcohol treatment service to work in partnership with other key agencies to provide a flexible, holistic community-based service across the borough. The integrated treatment service’s primary aims, and objectives are to: — deliver evidence based, high quality treatment interventions (both pharmacological and psychosocial) placing the young person or adult at the heart of the treatment system, — provide harm minimisation support and advice at all stages of residents’ treatment journeys, with a focus on keeping people safe, and reducing associated harms, — support adults and young people to improve their overall health and wellbeing and inspire them to maintain ‘recovery’ and abstinence from problematic drug and alcohol use, — work within a strength-based approach supporting people to live their lives fully and build on their strengths and resilience, — work in partnership to prevent adults and young people from misusing substances and build capacity for prevention, identification and brief intervention of substance misuse across key partner agencies, — offer specialist drug and alcohol support to reduce the damage to families affected by ‘hidden harm’ and adopt a think family approach within the treatment service, — provide support within the context of the wider family and carers for young people and young adults with drug and alcohol problems, and work in partnership with the family and carers of adults in the treatment service, — deliver accessible services in Ealing, reducing barriers caused by geography, protected characteristics, employment status, and safeguarding issues, — respond to new and emerging drugs in a frequently evolving and changing landscape, — improve awareness across Ealing’s communities about the positive impact of treatment and how to get help and support. Interested providers who have not already done so can register on the portal at https://procontract.due-north.com Please use project code DN399398 to access the tender.