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Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care Board (ICB) require a dedicated keyworkers service to work across BLMK with the aim of reducing the mental health inpatient admission rates of children and young people (CYP) with learning disability (LD) and/or an autism spectrum condition (ASC). Keyworkers are required to support CYP up to the age of 25 years with learning difficulties and/or autism (LDA) who are currently inpatients or at risk of being admitted to hospital, and who are rated Red and Amber on our Dynamic Support Register (DSR) and whose needs can escalate quickly. A key function of this role will be to offer flexibility in its broadest term, from delivering flexible, cross-system personalised child centred support, including face to face interventions, to involvement and access for the family, ensuring continuity of care and support as well as a strategic role supporting the BLMK Integrated Care System to ensure resources are in place to meet the needs of these children. The prospective provider will need to be: o Able to fully mobilise and provide services by 1st October 2023, and provide detailed and resourced mobilisation plan, including timescales. o Able to demonstrate experience of delivering the keyworker function in an ICB footprint o Able to have in place a dedicated workplace base within BLMK to accommodate key workers and key worker manager o Able to deliver Keyworker service across BLMK and able to provide face to face interventions in BLMK. o Able to demonstrate they can provide the required workforce Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) to meet the requirements the service, and in line with TUPE requirements o Able to demonstrate that workforce has sufficient training to support a young person who has a LD and/or ASC o Able to demonstrate management and delivery of personal health budgets o Able to demonstrate a good understanding of BLMK education, care and health system It is expected that the contracts will be for an initial period of 3 years with the opportunity to extend for a further period of up to 2 years (at the discretion of the Contracting Authority: maximum term of 5 years). The indicative annual contract value for this service is £800,000 per annum (excluding VAT). If you would like to express an interest in this opportunity, please complete the attached Expression of Interest (EOI) form and return to agem.procurementblmk@nhs.net by no later than 4pm on 14th July 2023. At the Commissioner's discretion, providers who evidence that they meet the above requirements may be taken through to the next round of the procurement process. Due to the time constraints for this process, you will be notified of your organisation's inclusion in the next stage in a timely manner.
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AGEM CSU is seeking market engagement in relation to a project to explore technology provider/s for planning software and associated training and advisory support that will enable AGEM CSU to provide a fully serviced Integrated Planning Solution and establish a Centre of Integrated Planning for NHS systems and partners. The scope of this service offer will be available to All NHS parties in England. AGEM CSU wishes to discuss with interested suppliers in the market, possible solutions, and contracting methodologies that may feed into the final requirement for procurement. The intended service offer is for a fully dynamic connected planning service which AGEM will manage data integration, quality control, software tool administration, together with a value improvement service that has expertise in population, patient and corporate service process, efficiency improvement. Customers will receive a comprehensive and flexible service with fully engaged professional leads driving the development of evidence-based planning models. The requirement therefore is for a technology solution and associated training and advisory support that enables the success of this service offer. AGEM's service will have planning models that bring together transparency of drivers for patient and population management processes and the required improvement targets with the key resource management components (Finance, workforce, performance, initiatives, capacity, suppliers) into one controlled collaborative decision making and governance environment. The offer will support more efficient and effective planning, monitoring across operational, annual, and strategic planning concurrently. The proposed solution is expected to facilitate and support systems and providers to enable efficient, effective and robust delivery, and operational and strategic decision making. Encapsuling top down strategic and operational levels to support healthcare delivery, whilst incorporating national directives and localised system and provider initiatives. The ambition is to support planning and: • Enable better decision making for population and patient flow management for improvement targets • Enable monitoring and management of potential costs so support financial control across workforce, assets, capacity, supplies • Enable better decision making for population and patient flow management for improvement targets • Enable monitoring and management of potential costs so support financial control across workforce, assets, capacity, supplies • Enable Assessment of workforce requirements, including bank and agency to support delivery and cost • Support Performance against National and Local targets The current expectation is that solutions would enable the end-user to create multiple planning scenarios to: A) set the plan but also to consider multiple assumptions and options as part of that process which reflects the decision process of systems and organisations. B) connect assumption and driver-based planning modules between integrated healthcare processes and the corporate resource management of workforce, assets, supplies and capacity C) consider how to address the tracking of delivery in year together with cost implications and staffing requirements and that this would be available at all levels from board to operational managers to assist with delivery AGEM are seeking discussions with interested parties by way of a MS Teams engagement event on 12th May 2023, where more information will be given in relation to the project and timeline. To express interest in the market engagement event please join the project within the Atamis e-procurement system and complete the pro-forma attendance document no later than midday on 10 May 2023. This Notice is being managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of AGEM CSU.
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