NHS South Yorkshire ICB Barnsley Place Children and Young people’s out of hours mental health crisis service

Concepts

• sheffield
• psychiatrist or psychologist
• mental health crisis service
• mental health crisis response service
• young people
• mental health crisis
• mental health wellbeing practitioners
• people
• hours
• nhs south yorkshire icb barnsley place children

Location

Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Description

NHS South Yorkshire ICB Barnsley place Children and Young people’s out of hours mental health crisis serviceThis is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.The intention is to award a contract following the Most Suitable Provider Process.This is a confidential out of hours mental health crisis response service for children and young people and their parents and carers, delivered by people with lived experience, mental health wellbeing practitioners, counsellors, therapists via telephone, text, and web-based chat.The value of the contract is £116,000 for a 2 year contract duration.

Total Quantity or Scope

NHS South Yorkshire ICB Barnsley place needs to implement a confidential, out of hours mental health crisis response service for children and young people. The service needs to be able to provide support if the young person:o Feel they have nowhere to turno Feel they can’t go on livingo Feel they are in crisiso Are finding it hard to cope with lifeo Are feeling angry, lonely, anxious or depressedo Are feeling confused or finding it hard to think straighto Are feeling unsafeo Are caring for a young persono Just want to talkThe service offer needs to include text, webchat and phone support and ideally needs to be operational between the hours of 17:00 and 09:00am (or for a minimum of a 12 hour period during these times), 7 days a week, every night of the year. Additionally, the provider of this service also needs to support the NHS England mandated NHS 111 Option 2 service for children and young people in Barnsley who contact the service and are under 16 years of age, as the current mandated service in Barnsley only supports people aged 16 and above.

CPV Codes

• 85121270 - Psychiatrist or psychologist services

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.The award was authorised by Barnsley Place Health and Care Senior Management Team. No conflicts of interest were declared.The intention is to award a contract using the Most Suitable Provider Process.