Health and social work services

Tender description

The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking tenders from providers who can deliver adult sensory impairment services. This service is divided into four lots. Visual impairment rehabilitation and mobility service for Edinburgh. The existing FTE for City of Edinburgh Council amounts to approximately 3.8. This service will also include an allocation for equipment and the retention/administration of the statutory CVI register adding in the region of 250 entries per year. Rehabilitation and mobility staff require to be appropriately qualified and registered with a relevant professional body. Eye Clinic Support Service supporting around 800-1 000 people from across Lothian (new individuals, returning individuals and families and carers) per year. Please note this service is part-funded by NHS Lothian to take account of service users living in the wider NHS Lothian area. Specialist social work service chiefly for Deaf British Sign Language users and a smaller proportion of people who are hard of hearing /deafened people and deafblind people in Edinburgh, providing in the region of 40-60 assessments/reviews chiefly in British Sign Language per year plus associated social work duty tasks, together with a BSL interpretation duty service to run for four hours each week throughout the year. Staff for each component of this service require to be appropriately qualified and registered with a relevant professional body. Deaf equipment service delivering between 150 and 250 installations per year in Edinburgh to Deaf BSL users, people who are hard of hearing, deafened people and deafblind people, together with the provision of a demonstration area and advice service on equipment and technology for clients to self-purchase, download, etc. A proportion of the service delivery will be required in British Sign Language.