Health and social work services

Tender description

Wokingham Borough Council has recently published its new community vision aiming for safe, strong communities which protect and safeguard our children, young and vulnerable people, offering quality care and support, at the right time, to prevent the need for long term care. Integral to the vision is the corporate delivery plan which states how we will work together to shape services to meet needs of our residents, empowers them to live independent and healthy lives. Currently our fully-integrated substance misuse service contract expires end of March 2021. The integrated drugs and alcohol recovery service needs to be delivered in line with an evidence based practice model that attracts and engages substance misusers into treatment and promotes full sustained recovery from drugs and/or alcohol misuse which is also known as substance misuse. The service will support adults, young people, families and carers with substance misuse issues within/across a community setting(s), it will empower residents to maintain a healthy and satisfying lifestyle and protect their family and friends around them from any further harm associated with substance misuse. It is anticipated that the contract will be let for a 5 years term with a potential extension of up to 2 years subject to good performance. Service scope includes: • early intervention and prevention (including assertive outreach); • assessment, care planning, co-ordination, pathways and review; • harm reduction; specialist needle exchange; pharmacy needle exchange; including needle exchange packs; needle waste; and prevention of drug related deaths, injury and overdose including naloxone; • pharmacological interventions including supervised consumption and delivery of a shared care system; • interventions to reduce crime, reoffending and anti-social behaviour; • freedom from dependence on alcohol; • access to residential detoxification, treatment and aftercare; • focus on safeguarding children, families, adults with care and support needs and carers; • recovery and aftercare; • effective user and carer involvement; • access to mutual aid and peer support; • support to access employment, training, education and volunteering; • support to access and sustain suitable accommodation; • interventions aimed at improving mental and physical health and wellbeing; • drug and alcohol behaviour change digital approach; • general prescribing; • shared care; • needle exchange. Not within service scope: • funding for residential detoxification, treatment and aftercare is not included in the value of this contract.