provision of Specialist Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically & Culturally Diverse Communities

Concepts

• health services
• wakefield
• mental health services
• specialist mental health services
• equitable mental health services
• effective specialist mental health services
• peer support services
• mental health support
• non-mental health community support
• mental health problems

Location

Bradford District and Craven

Description

This commission is available to VCSE organisations providing effective specialist mental health services for ethnically and culturally diverse communities in recognition of their vital role in responding to the pandemic, ongoing system pressures and supporting some of the most acutely ill and vulnerable patients. This specification sets out how this service will continue to build on and further deliver the ambitions set by people for our services. As such, we will continue to work with our providers to further shape and transform the service and the system of support. It is expected that through the Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Communities, more people receive appropriate interventions at the right place, in a highly responsive and culturally competent manner. Our ambition is to move away from a system that is based on thresholds and tiers to enable people to access information, advice, support and care based on their needs. Working together with people accessing our services, their carers, with staff and stakeholder partners, we shared experience and expertise on understanding how we improve the support available. The result is we have adopted, and adapted, the evidence-based model called i-Thrive to provide a systemic framework for our services to support children, young people, adults and older adults to be happy, healthy at home and have agreed a series of clear guiding principles to deliver and improve our support.

Total Quantity or Scope

Service Aims Across Bradford District and Craven, we will develop and deliver Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Communities that will: - Harness the collective will of our system to make a measurable, significant, and sustainable step change in promoting equity within mental health services. - Promote and respect mental wellbeing framing and help people experiencing mental health problems to co-design, manage and work towards recovery and fulfilment that fits with their cultural and personal beliefs and experiences. Wider aims - To deliver a person-centred service to the Bradford and Craven population, ensuring equity of access and quality of service provision. - To ensure health outcomes and improvements in wellbeing are measured at regular intervals and recorded for submission to national and local datasets. - To support the delivery of the vision and goals of Healthy Minds Strategy. - To be flexible in the delivery of services to ensure the location of services are closer to home and does not prohibit access. - To develop a strategic advisory body that support policy, good practice, and innovation in delivering equitable mental health services. Service Outcomes … Purpose - Identify priorities related to our three outcomes and overall vision – better lives, respect rights and improve support. Population - Increased access to non-mental health community support. - Strengthen representative service member and carer involvement for Healthy Minds. - Less fear and stigma of services among communities of ethnic and racial diversity of talking about and accessing mental health support. - Increased satisfaction with Healthy Minds and specialist mental health services. - Increased proportion of people who feel they have recovered from their illness. - Appropriate admission, quicker discharge of people to community, inpatient and crisis alternative support. - An increased range of effective culturally appropriate interventions such as peer support services, counselling psychotherapeutic and pharmacological engagement as well as better access to wider health and wellbeing care. Place - Increased confidence, skill, response and reflection within our workforce and less stigma. - Utilise effective measurement tools, developing new tools and building the evidence base. - Develop our partners to be a centre of excellence that supports policy, good practice, and innovation in delivering equitable mental health services. Partnership - Develop a strong collaboration and engaged leadership. - Improve communication, quality and integration of Healthy Minds services. - Better engagement with our diverse communities that influences our strategic priorities. - Support our Root out Racism campaign and other partnership campaigns that support and promote equity within health and care services.

Renewal Options

Up to 2 years by agreement and subject to availability of funding

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

The Services to which this Procurement relates fall within the scope of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 otherwise known as the Light Touch Regime. No terms used through this Procurement or any other indication should be interpreted to mean that the Contracting Authority intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 services A Bidder event will be held on 23 October 2023 @ 10:30 via MS Teams. If you would like an invitation to this event then you must express an interest in the ITT via the e-procurement portal at https://nhswyicb.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/ and then request an invitation through the messaging system in that ITT.