Health and social work services

Tender description

This is for the provision of supported employment services to adults in Essex experiencing mental ill health. The proposed approach, based on broad stakeholder engagement, including engagement with individuals with lived experience, is to procure a lead provider(s) to deliver supported mental health employment services across Essex via two lots. The supported employment services are a non-statutory service and are aimed at improving the wellbeing of people mental health illness. We believe that employment is a key enabler to supporting recovering and independence and can help people become less reliant on statutory health and social care services. Lot 1 will focus exclusively on adults known to secondary mental health services and deliver specialist employment support using the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach. The primary aim of the service and the main outcome is to support adults with mental ill health into employment. Individuals will need different degrees and types of support depending on their personal circumstances and we would expect that the provider takes a personalised approach, whilst remaining true to the IPS model.