Health and social work services

Tender description

Islington Council invites suitable expressions of interest from organisations to provide housing support services in shared and/or self-contained supported housing for adults with multiple needs. The service will provide a high quality housing related support service for adults with multiple needs. The service will provide adults with multiple needs with the required intensity of support to enable them to gain the skills to live independently, and move-on to appropriate accommodation. The service will work with Islington Council, the private sector and partner agencies to identify appropriate move-on accommodation, with a move-on plan and conversation built into the intervention from its early stages. The housing support service will be provided in 4 lots. Details of the expected number of units, the expected levels of support, the expected referrals and the indicative budget available for each of the lots is included in the tender documents. While we expect that the support offered by each lot will have a degree of differentiation (as noted by the different expected levels of support and expected referrals), we would like to move away from assigning Lots as providing ‘High’, ‘Medium’ or ‘Low’ support. While we recognise that some properties will lend themselves to greater or lesser intensities of support due to their configuration (e.g. the presence of an office or lack thereof), Islington Council encourages providers to think flexibly about how outcomes are achieved for residents and how staff are allocated and split across sites to enable support services to be responsive to changing needs and circumstances as and when they arise. The Council seeks to procure supported accommodation for a minimum of 267 units of supported housing (including emergency beds) for adults with multiple needs, from an estimated start date of 1 June 2020. All providers must have access to suitable properties that adhere to the minimum unit requirement of the lot for which they are applying. For further information, please see the procurement documents on the London Tenders Portal contract: 1920-0223 – supported housing for adults with multiple needs. Requirement of minimum 46 units. Minimum expected support to include: 24-hour on-site support; specialist staff; clinical provision. Minimum expected referrals to service to include: multiple needs (as defined in specification); pre-contemplative, contemplative, preparing, action stages of cycle of change; willingness to accommodate pets on a case-by-case basis; emergency bed provision when applicable. Indicative maximum annual budget available: GBP 870 000. Requirement of minimum 46 units. Minimum expected support to include: mixture of 24-hour on-site support and flexible provision; face to face access to staff for minimum 14 hours per day; specialist staff. Minimum expected referrals to service to include: multiple needs (as defined in specification); pre-contemplative, contemplative, preparing, action stages of cycle of change; willingness to accommodate pets on a case-bycase basis; willingness to accommodate couples on a case-by-case basis; emergency bed provision when applicable. Indicative maximum annual budget available: GBP 350 000. Requirement of minimum 114 units. Minimum expected support to include: flexible support; night concierge; face to face access to staff for minimum of 14 hours per day; specialist staff. Minimum expected referrals to include: multiple needs (as defined in specification); contemplative, preparing, action stages of cycle of change; willingness to accommodate pets on a case by case basis; inclusion of women-only site; emergency bed provision when applicable. Indicative maximum annual budget available: GBP 790 000. Requirement of minimum 60 units. Minimum expected support to include: mixture of 24-hour support and flexible support; face to face access to staff for minimum of 14 hours per day; specialist staff. Minimum expected referrals to include: multiple needs (as defined in specification); contemplative, preparing, action stages of cycle of change; women-only provision; emergency bed provision when available. Indicative maximum annual budget available: GBP 280 000.