Short-Term Enhanced Domiciliary Care (STED)

Tender description

Worcestershire County Council (WCC) is seeking tenders from suitably experienced organisations to deliver a short-term enhanced domiciliary care service. The aim of this service is to provide enhanced domiciliary care capacity to ensure timely discharge of individuals to their usual place of residence as soon as they have achieved their reablement goals or are clinically stable to be discharged from a hospital setting or neighbourhood team. The service will work closely with the Reablement Service to complement Worcestershire's existing Pathway 1 services. The Service will: o Deliver enhanced assessment capability enabling the service to undertake the delivery of care within 24 hours of an accepted referral being made o Deliver the care hours in line with CQC requirements o Deliver care hours for individuals for short periods of time o Start to deliver, where required, care packages within 24 hours following an accepted referral from reablement o Liaise directly and develop a trusted assessment process with the Councils Reablement Service o Liaise with Domiciliary care services within Worcestershire to ensure the efficient hand over of packages of care to long term Providers o Fully adhere to CQC Domiciliary Care regulations - https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-Providers/regulations-enforcement/regulations-service-Providers-managers. Further information and tender documents can be accessed by clicking the 'Express Interest' button. Furthermore, in order to be able to apply, please ensure you have clicked the 'Opt in' button at the bottom of the ITT Page.