Health and social work services

Tender description

NHS E and NHS I South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest to attend a market engagement event from suitably qualified and experienced prime providers, to provide a health and well-being service to Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institute (YOI). NHSE will commission a prime provider model for the provision of services and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers. The contract commencement date is 1.4. 2021. The indicative annual contract value is 2 400 000 GBP. NHS E and NHS I South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest to attend a market engagement event from suitably qualified and experienced prime providers, to provide a health and well-being service to Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institute (YOI). HMP Cookham Wood is a YOI in Rochester, Kent for boys and young men aged 15–18 years. The average length of stay is 2-3 months, although there are increasing numbers of longer sentences that will involve transition to the adult secure estate. The health and well-being service will be required to provide an integrated model of emotional, mental and physical health service provision (including substance misuse interventions). The service will seek to promote all aspects of health and will work in close collaboration with other key partners. The recent implementation of an integrated care framework (SECURE STAIRS) across the children and young persons (CYPs) secure estate nationally has significantly increased the investment in psychologically informed services. The service will offer a seamless experience of person centred care from the point of entry to the point of release or transition to other settings to ensure effective continuity of care. The healthcare related services in the contract are likely to include: — primary care nursing, — GP provision, — healthcare administration, — mental health and emotional well-being services including: primary and secondary mental health and learning disability services; access to a range of psychologically informed interventions appropriate for young people; a programme of support that promotes and enables health and well-being, — assessment, care planning and support for young people with complex needs, — sexual health services, — psycho-social interventions service for substance misusers, — public health programmes inc health promotion (inc smoking cessation), — responsibility for ensuring pharmacy services: Inc mechanism for OOH provision and medicine management service delivery, — promotion and active support for patient involvement in service design and delivery, — dental provision, — appropriate specialist health provision for example: optometry, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, — appropriate administrative support (including data intelligence and reporting resource). The provider will also be responsible for ensuring: — close collaboration with the education and training provider to develop a shared health curriculum and working partnership that supports young people with emotional and health needs in the classroom, — effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services where appropriate, — the provider may potentially be responsible for social care provision following assessment, subject to co-commissioning arrangements with local authorities, — the provider will also be responsible for ensuring the delivery of appropriate reflective supervision to non-healthcare staff.