To provide support to individuals accessing START whose mental health needs are apparent and effecting their recovery. This will include secondary mental health support and prescribing of medication when required.
. To deliver trauma-informed practice in the understanding that trauma exposure can impact an individual's recoveryTo work collaboratively with START and allocated Care Coordinators from the service to plan joint care and risk management plans this will include working at START venues across the town and services being delivered within START core hours.
. To draft reports to allow Substance use, Public Health and Commissioning within agreed budgets and timescales to further support the development of the recovery agenda.
· To develop care pathways and treatment which engage priority groups and populations who may experience barriers to engagement in treatment; including sex workers, clients with coexisting mental health and substance misuse, armed forces veterans, BME populations, and offenders.
· To work alongside service users and their families to ensure collaboration and co-design of services.
· To deliver trauma informed approaches to treatment and collaborative working with wider support services to minimise the impact of adverse childhood experiences on future health and wellbeing.
· To adopt a whole family approach in order to improve outcomes for children affected by parental substance misuse and mental health needs (Dual Diagnosis) .
· To embed workforce culture, recovery support and aftercare that values, celebrates and supports recovery across physical, cultural, social and human dimensions of service users and their family's journey to recovery.
• To provide a service offer that flexes to respond to the needs of emerging patterns of recovery and substance use needs
. To provide support to substance misuse services and wider Public Health team to understand the current recovery community and to work with new and established groups across Hartlepool to develop a sustainable 'Recovery Community' model which supports people and their families in their recovery journey.
. Develop lived experience research working in collaboration with Hartlepool Borough Council and Teeside University
. To draft reports to allow Substance use, Public Health and Commissioning within agreed budgets and timescales to further support the development of the recovery agenda. The Supplier will
• Have experience and understanding of Recovery focused agenda's within substance use, in particular the incorporation of lived experience voices.
• Have experience in working with a wide range of community groups
• Support the development of new and established groups to deliver a range of social and life skills to support a Recovery Community model.
•Engage directly with the Local Authority to gain an understanding of what is driving the needs for the substance use strategy and recovery agenda
• Deliver all outputs and outcomes specified for the project
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies and Local Authority
• Collaborate at least quarterly with the commissioner to identify and set priorities based on commissioning intentions, evidence base, demand, local health need and the engagement and feedback from individuals, families, communities and the local system.
To provide care and support for individuals who are accessing support from the Alcohol Care Team (ACT) based in the University Hospital of North Tees, to form the liaison between NTH acute service and local community substance misuse service in Hartlepool - START.
To utilise START reporting system - Systmone to assess if individuals are known to START and ascertain current treatment plans.
To work collaboratively with START and allocated Recovery Coordinators from the service to plan joint care and risk management plans delivered within START core hours, including ensuring START are aware of any admissions and also discharge planning; including commencement of Opiate Substitute Therapy (OST), and ensuring Naloxone provision has been given where applicable.
The provider will work with START to ensure there is agreed performance reporting to the quarterly substance misuse governance group
Develop, implement and provide a service model which delivers trauma, anxiety and depression counselling to individuals accessing substance use services:
• Develop a model that facilitates individuals to progress through the different levels of service support, which recognise their achievements throughout their recovery journey.
• Ensure all interventions, at all level of service are high quality, evidence-based, appropriate to need and delivered in a way that reduces risk and is non-restrictive, in order to enable service users and their families to fully progress along their recovery journey.
• Ensure that collaborative working with key partners s are embedded within an individual's treatment and recovery, in order to maximise their capacity to sustain long term recovery from mental health needs.
• Work in partnership with adult social care to ensure that long term health conditions are identified, addressed and the impact of care needs are understood and planned for through evidence based collaborative approaches and pathways.
• Work in partnership with primary and secondary care to ensure that health needs are identified, addressed and planned for through evidence based collaborative approaches and pathways.
• Work in partnership with children's social care and early help to embed pathways that identify risk early and work with the family to develop family plans to reduce risk for children
• Provide a flexible offer which engages, and is accessible to, those groups who do not engage in treatment
• Collaborate at least quarterly with the commissioner to identify and set priorities based on commissioning intentions, evidence base, demand, local health need and the engagement and feedback from individuals, families, communities and the local system.
HBC is seeking to secure the expertise of a suitably qualified service provider to support rough sleepers to move off the streets as quickly as possible into appropriate accommodation. It will require a flexible approach to support people who are rough sleeping with the ability to target the most marginalised people.
The provision of an Assertive Outreach Service is to help and support those who are rough sleeping or at risk of rough sleeping. The Service will work to relieve rough sleeping, providing relevant advice, support and guidance, improving pathways and access to suitable accommodation including emergency accommodation. The Service will include assertive outreach, drop-in/in-reach and the provision of an emergency crash pad
The provider will assist the local authority to meet the objectives of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy as well as the wider Government Strategy to Ending Rough Sleeping for Good and any subsequent strategies.
CONFIRM is one of a very small number of software solutions which provide full asset management capabilities for use by local authorities and utility companies. This software has become embedded within HBC's Internal Procedures, including Highway Services.
The system is robust, bespoke and meets the needs of Highways and Asset Management Teams. It is flexible and allows non-highway assets to be managed in a similar way. The system manages streetworks permits from a utility works perspective and provides seamless integration from highway inspection through to internal permit creation.
The market place for this type of product is severely limited. Investigations have been conducted into sourcing alternative suppliers however these would involve initial set-up fees costs, additional specialist modules and training which would incur further costs and time. Such levels of additional funding would not be sanctioned.
The supplier is a leading-edge software company offering many varied solutions of which CONFIRM forms part of. Hartlepool Borough Council have this software embedded and are one of nearly one hundred similar Authorities using the same software. Sourcing by other procurement routes rather than the one taken would also incur additional costs.
This contract serves as an exemption outside of HBC Contract Procedure Rules.
HBC are looking to appoint a supplier for the sorting, processing and sale to end markets of Hartlepool Borough Councils dry recycling material resources.
Borough Hall Lift Refurbishment. Lift Repair & Maintenance to Borough Hall.
Direct Award to Durham County Council under NEPO408 Framework - Lifts, Escalator & Related Equipment Maintenance, Repair & Refurbishment
Hartlepool Council have worked with Lynnfield over the past 2 years with Lynnfield operating a specialist educational support hub in order to ensure that new international arrivals have been supported to not only settle and integrate but are able to receive the best possible education for primary aged children including intensive language support. Continuing to utilise the services of the support hub provided by Lynnfield will ensure consistency of approach for the children and families involved as well as effective transition support to other primary and secondary settings for the children.
Hartlepool Virtual School will retain oversight of the programme and will have clear and open communications with the provider in relation to expectations together with any adaptations required for the support over the duration of this proposed agreement.
In essence, the funding will primarily cover staff costs with the remainder being used for resources.
This is a contract extension of the arrangement in place from 01/09/23 to 31/08/25.
TVDBC - Residential Children’s Homes Provision for Children and Young People.
Darlington Borough Council on behalf of Hartlepool Borough Council, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, Middlesbrough Council and Stockton-on-Tees Borough CouncilNorth EastWAC-118932
Highlight Active Wellbeing Hub is a landmark £35 million investment in Hartlepool's future health and wellbeing. Located on the town's Waterfront, this state-of-the-art facility will replace the ageing Mill House Leisure Centre and redefine what it means to be active in Hartlepool.
We are seeking a marketing agency with proven experience in launching leisure or wellbeing facilities. The agency will work closely with Active Hartlepool and Hartlepool Borough Council's Communications and Marketing Team to deliver a full-service campaign.
We are looking for the campaign to raise awareness of the new facility throughout Hartlepool and the wider region. The campaign must be full of energy and aligned with our tone of voice and values.