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Aims of the service To pilot (over 24 months) Mental Health Youth work provision in select A&E departments in South East London for CYP aged 11-18 who present following self-harm with a view to: • Providing discreet, understanding, compassionate and sensitive support for those who are attending A&E for self-harm treatment, which may include those who are also experiencing suicidal ideation. This would include: • Offering support and containment, emotional regulation and managing of risk while in the A&E department. • Understanding any additional or sensory needs of children and young people and support staff working in the A&E department to be mindful of these (such as through use of NHS communications passport). • Offering, at the point of discharge from the A&E department: • A discharge support document that includes signposting to local community offers that might be of benefit to children and young people who self-harm and experience suicidal ideation. • Up to 8 sessions of psychosocial follow up support in the community. • Supporting collaborative working with key professionals and teams involved in the care of the child or young person (e.g. A&E department paediatric emergency medicine staff, psychiatric liaison teams, CAMHS, substance misuse teams) and supporting the sense of a seamless experience of care. • Strengthening the feedback loop between A&E emergency medicine staff and CAMHS once those have been discharged, in particular, if re-presenting. • Ensuring robust data collection and record keeping to enable evaluation of service impact. The Contract will commence on 10/12/2024 for a period of 2 years. Value of contract: £232,000 per annum. The total contract value for 2 years is £464,000 excluding VAT. To apply please follow the link below and search the given contract reference number: https://www.atamis.co.uk/ Contract Ref Number: C300449

South East London ICB is seeking to procure a Sanctuary Seeking Wellbeing Service for the Lewisham borough area. The Lewisham Sanctuary Seeking Wellbeing Service has been funded to provide culturally sensitive community-based interventions, advice and practical support to optimise the ongoing health and wellbeing of Lewisham's resettled population and suitability of services for this community. The key objectives for the service are as follows: • Deliver a series of family-orientated, community-based psychoeducational and psychosocial interventions in four key languages: Arabic, Dari, Pashto and Ukrainian. • Provide trauma-informed and culturally sensitive services. • Deliver community training and education to support those who live and work in Lewisham to better understand the experiences of our resettled community and how to support them to make Lewisham home. • Engage with local services supporting the service user group (e.g. Refugee Council Resettlement Service, Lewisham Council Resettlement Team and Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) and Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network (LRMN) who support asylum seekers. • Deliver effective stepped-care for service users and seamless integration into statutory services where and when required. • Develop an offer for children aged between 13-18 years. • Develop an appropriate management system to collect, monitor and report on the activities of the service. • Promote and develop a high level of service awareness amongst eligible service users and associated stakeholders. Please refer to the Service Specification for further information on this service. The contract will have a duration of 2 years (24 months). The funding available for this contract is £180,000 (excluding VAT) per annum making the total cost of the contract £360,000. This is a Request for Quotation exercise, interested organisations must submit a duly completed RfQ bid responses for this project via Atamis e-tendering portal. Bidders needs to register on Atamis if they are not registered already. This can be done by clicking the below link. https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome For advice or support in registering please contact the Atamis helpdesk: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk Once registered, you can acces the RfQ and submit your response by clicking the following link to this specific project: Atamis contract reference: C324725 https://atamis-1928.lightning.force.com/lightning/r/ProSpend__Proc_Contract__c/a07Sr00000M0qKUIAZ/view Please note that any RfQ submissions by any other means will not be considered. The deadline for submission is 17:00 on 09 January 2025. Any RfQ submissions received after this deadline will not be considered. Please refer to the RfQ Guidance Document for further information and guidance on the Request for Quotation. Additional information: The proposed service is as follows: • Community Wellbeing Workshops: will provide our resettled and refugee populations with opportunities to learn more about their wellbeing and mental health, explore the services available to them in the borough and support one another to nurture and maintain their wellbeing • 1:1 Wellbeing Workshops: will offer time-limited psychosocial support and counselling to those within our resettled and refugee population who seek to explore issues related to their mental health outside of statutory services. These workshops will be culturally specific and those who deliver them should be fluent in the native tongue of those participating. • Community Engagement Workshops: will promote awareness and understanding of the experiences of our resettled and refugee population, available befriender programmes and culturally sensitive ways to support them as they move through their period of resettlement.

The Authority will use the existing pathway for the development and delivery of a pan-London face-to-face UDC service. The description below provides an outline of the main features of that pathway and the services that will be commissioned under this procurement to support the delivery of the service. The model requires: • Patients to be clinically triaged • Patients to access the UDC service via NHS 111 • Patients to be triaged by The Authority's commissioned dental triage service • Subject to meeting the acceptance criteria, patients to be allocated appointment slots by the dental triage service • Patient details to be shared with the UDC Provider via NHS.net email which will include appointment time, medical history and a brief description of symptoms (there is a possibility that the sharing of patient details may change in the future if an electronic referral system is implemented)

The Service is intended to be procured by means of 2 separate lots: Lot 1 -- Facilitate more vulnerable patients to access NHS appointments and services digitally, through placing of smart phones in libraries and community hubs and loans to patients Lot 2 - Educate and support Haringey patients to access primary care through digital channels, improving access and reducing demands on general practice The contracts for both of the above will be offered on a 1 year contract with ability to extend by a further year. The Provider will deliver the Service in accordance with the following principles: • The Service must aim to ensure equal access by all Service User groups, reduce health inequalities and promote inclusion, tailoring the Service to support and target those with greatest need through a proportionate universalism approach and equality of access for people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 • Delivery of the Service will be tailored to the circumstances and culture of Service Users • The Provider must build relationships and work with relevant local stakeholders (including local health economies and community sector organisations) to deliver a relevant and inclusive programme • The Provider should maximise the flexibility of their offering in order to increase reach for all, including communities who face the most barriers to access • The Provider should ensure Service User involvement and engagement in the evaluation and improvement of the Service • The Provider must engage proactively with provider services whilst recognising the competing demands on them • All individuals must be treated with courtesy, respect and an understanding of their needs • Ongoing improvements and adjustments will be made to the delivery of the Service as new evidence emerges local evaluation of the Service. The Provider acknowledges and agrees that the Service may be adjusted to respond to best available evidence, including (by way of example only) as a result of planned innovation-testing evaluation (e.g. a research project or time-limited pilot of a local innovation to improve the Service) Total annual contract value for Lot 1 is £100,000. Total value for the two year period is £200,000. Total annual contract value for Lot 2 is £20,000. Total value for the two year period is £40,000.

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board (NHS SEL ICB, known as NHS South East London) is undertaking a procurement process to select service providers for seven (7) mental health supported living contracts; each based at a specific premises in the borough of Southwark. The sites are: - 212 Peckham Rye - Dunton Road - Glengarry Road - Kirkwood Road - Milestone 1 Wales Close - St James' House - Landcroft Road One in four people in the UK will suffer a mental health problem in the course of a year. Mental illness covers a wide range of conditions such as depression, anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders, through to more severe conditions like schizophrenia. Common mental disorders (CMD) include conditions such as depression and anxiety. Results from the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) show that 1 in 6 adults had a common mental disorder (CMD) in the week prior to the survey, rising to almost in 1 in 5 adults in London. Mental ill-health represents a significant burden on our local population and the health and care system. It is estimated that almost 47,600 adults in Southwark are currently experiencing a CMD, this is expected to rise to approximately 52,000 individuals over the next decade Although less disabling than major psychiatric disorders, the higher prevalence of CMD mean that their cumulative cost to society is greater. All types of CMD are more prevalent in women than among men, and they are also more likely to experience more severe symptoms. Young women were identified as a particularly high-risk group with an estimated 5,600 cases in the borough. Employment and socio-economic status were identified as a substantial risk factor. In Southwark, approximately half of the claims for employment and support allowance (ESA) are related to mental health - with 6,000 cases in February 2016. The aims of this long-term supported living service are to enable service users with enduring mental health needs to live the community and function at an optimal level of independence, with appropriate levels of support. The Service will therefore play an essential role in meeting the accommodation and support needs of people who may have not lived independently or succeeded in living independently previously. In particular, the Service will meet the needs of individuals who are leaving hospital or residential care services. A key aim of this service is to support residents with complex needs to live as independently as possible, developing the skills necessary to remain living in the community.