Award

CYP Mental Health Inpatient and Community Pathway Training

BLENHEIM HOUSE

This public procurement record has 3 releases in its history.

Award

25 Aug 2022 at 10:53

Tender

17 Sep 2021 at 12:13

Planning

12 Jul 2021 at 08:37

Summary of the contracting process

The buying organisation, Blenheim House, planned a National training provision for a new psychological role in Children and Young People's Mental Health. The main procurement category is services, with a contract period starting on January 1, 2022, and ending on December 31, 2023. Health Education England is working in partnership with NHS England and Improvement to commission this training, aligning it with the CYP MH Inpatient pathway training curriculum. The tender, valued at £4,000,000 GBP, is part of a rapid evaluation to inform future roll-outs, to begin a procurement process from early August 2021.

The CYP Mental Health Inpatient and Community Pathway Training by the University of Exeter was awarded the contract by Blenheim House. This training initiative is vital for businesses in the education and training services industry looking to expand into mental health services. The tender, while currently cancelled, highlights the commitment to improving access to mental health services for children and young people. Businesses focusing on workforce development and training provision for psychological roles in mental health can find opportunities for growth in this sector.

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Notice Title

CYP Mental Health Inpatient and Community Pathway Training

Notice Description

CYP MH Inpatient and Community Pathway<br/>Training<br/>Youth Intensive Psychological Practitioner (new role)

Lot Information

Lot 1

The expansion of the children and young people's mental health (CYP MH) workforce is delivered through a partnership involving NHS England & Improvement (NHSE/I), Health Education England (HEE), service commissioners and providers of NHS funded care and aligned to a number of key drivers which include:
* The Five Year Forward View (2016 - 2021)
* Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper (2018)
* The NHS Long Term Plan (2019 - 2024)
* COVID-19 and recovery
* National Quality Improvement Taskforce for children and young people's mental health inpatient services

The new Quality Improvement Taskforce for Children and Young People's inpatient mental health services was announced in Oct 2019. The overarching aim of the Taskforce is to support improvements in the quality of CYP MH inpatient care to ensure services deliver safe, high-quality care that is timely, treatment-focused and outcomes based.

Further workforce growth for the CYP MH workforce will support the commitment in the NHS Long Term Plan to improve access to mental health services for an additional 345,000 children and young people by 2023/24.

NHS Benchmarking data from 2019 and 2020 highlighted that the mean CYP MH inpatient Length of Stay (LOS) in England is 67 days which continues to be at the higher end of the international range of benchmarking than the international mean value of 46 days. This results in a CYP General Adolescent Unit (GAU) admission which is twice as long as an acute adult mental health admission.

2020 data shows vacancy rates across all staff routes for CYP MH inpatient settings at 19% compared with 11% in community CYP MH services. Staffing costs are therefore impacted by increasing agency and bank staff costs across the inpatient pathway.

Whilst it is acknowledged that reduced reliance on agency, temporary, locum and bank staff will have a positive financial impact, more importantly there are other positive benefits associated with reduced reliance on temporary staffing. This includes a more stable and experienced workforce that can receive better supervision, ongoing lifelong professional development, improved staff morale and local connections and relationships can be forged to enable them to provide better care to children and young people.

Whilst there are a number of existing low-intensity psychological roles in the healthcare system, these staff do not have the specific psychological / mental health training to actively support some of the psychological interventions required for this specific cohort of CYP.

The training will ensure practitioners have the skills and knowledge to support the delivery of safe and effective care to young people who can be severely unwell and often have complex needs. This initiative will also contribute to reduced admissions and length of stay and reduce overall staff vacancy rates across the inpatient pathway.

The training will include support for supervisors of the new role, who will also be expected to make a transformation contribution in developing and establishing the role.

It is recognised that there are a number of existing education providers currently delivering training across a range of CYP MH and CYP IAPT pathways. This specification focuses on new training to be commissioned as part of a CYP MH Inpatient and Community Pathway New Role pilot.

A new national curriculum has been developed and it is expected that the new training will be aligned to the CYP MH Inpatient pathway training curriculum (which can be seen at Appendix 1) together with the Competence Framework for Staff Working in Children and Young People's Inpatient Mental Health Services which builds on the UCL Competence Framework for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-02c69b
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023752-2022
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Planning, Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Planning Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

80 - Education and training services


CPV Codes

80000000 - Education and training services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£1,655,200 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
£1,655,200 £1M-£10M
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
25 Aug 20223 years ago
Submission Deadline
13 Oct 2021Expired
Future Notice Date
15 Aug 2021Expired
Award Date
24 Aug 20223 years ago
Contract Period
4 Jan 2022 - 3 Jan 2024 1-2 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Cancelled
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
BLENHEIM HOUSE
Additional Buyers

HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND

Contact Name
Commercial Team, Leila Hodson
Contact Email
commercialteam@hee.nhs.uk, leila.hodson@hee.nhs.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
LEEDS
Postcode
LS1 4PL
Post Town
Leeds
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLE4 West Yorkshire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLE42 Leeds
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Leeds
Electoral Ward
Little London & Woodhouse
Westminster Constituency
Leeds Central and Headingley

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

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