Award, Contract

PSR- Direct Award C - Employment Advisor Services

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

  • Contract Timeline

    Publication Date

    9th June 2025 16:50:21 PM

  • Contract Summary

    Mind in Tower Hamlets and Newham shall support the DWP project of Employment Support within IAPT services to ensure more people with common mental health conditions are getting the integrated support they need to improve their mental health and remain in, return to or find work.
    The EAs will provide skill-based interventions, information and practical support to help people receiving IAPT services to:
    • Remain in/Return to
    • Find work
    • Access to further education and training
    Mind in Tower Hamlets abd Newham will:
    • Ensure supervision and leadership of the EAs with Senior support.
    • Release new and existing EAs/Senior EAs to receive mandatory training and provide opportunities for EAs to consolidate their training by receiving dedicated time and access to appropriate clients/cases to practice the interventions they will be trained to provide.
    • Offer employment support to all IAPT clients at assessment and regularly throughout the course of their treatment and at the point of treatment completion/discharge from treatment.
    • Record all direct and indirect EA patient activity on IAPTus (contractor data system) and collect all necessary EA outcome measures.
    • Ensure that all new national data requests and outcome measures introduced by the DWP/IAPT are met.
    • Innovatively use EA capacity to meet periods of increased demand e.g., providing EA groups.
    • Maintain effective communication and joint working with the IAPT service and proactively raise any performance concerns e.g., requiring an increased number of EA referrals, in relevant forums.
    • Ensure that the patient complaints template shared with the IAPT service is regularly updated with patient complaints and resolution actions and escalated to the IAPT service promptly, when necessary.
    • Proactively and promptly notify the IAPT service of any serious incidents; sharing all related information and documentation and participate all related investigations.
    Support evaluation by:
    a)Ensuring appropriate consent procedures are in place to support the data collection, data reporting and data sharing arrangements to allow for the effective evaluation of the project using the standardized consent forms
    b) Provide specified management to support the roll out and evaluation for the initiative
    c) Release EAs/Senior EAs to participate in research activity such as qualitative interviews and support observation conducted by an independent research organisation as part of the process of the evaluation
    d) Feedback any concerns during the initiative to the EAs in IAPT team
    e) Develop appropriate information sharing protocols to allow for the information exchange between IAPT and employment support services which should support effective joint working, outcome monitoring, and review

  • Contract Details

    Open Contracting ID

    ocds-h6vhtk-03c650

    Publication Source

    Find a Tender Service

    Procurement Stage

    Award, Contract

    Procurement Method

    Open

    Procurement Method Details

    Open Procedure

    Procurement Category

    Services

    Tender Suitability

    Framework / DPS

  • Contract Classification

    CPV Code(s)

    85100000

    CPV Division(s)

    85 - Health and social work services

  • Awarding Authority

    EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

    Buyer Name

    Harpreet Bhachu

    Buyer Email

    harpreet.bhachu2@nhs.net

    Buyer Phone

    Buyer Address

    9 Alie Street

    London

    E1 8DE

    United Kingdom

  • Awarded Supplier(s)

    Supplier Name(s)

    MIND IN TOWER HAMLETS AND NEWHAM


Tender

Employment Advisors: Talking Therapy

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

  • Contract Timeline

    Publication Date

    4th May 2023 12:02:06 PM

    Tender Deadline

    13th June 2023 11:00:00 AM   Expired

  • Contract Summary

    Newnham and Bedfordshire to support the DWP project of Employment Support within talking therapies services to ensure more people with common mental health conditions are getting the integrated support they need to improve their mental health and remain in, return to or find work.
    The EAs will provide skill-based interventions, information and practical support to help people receiving talking therapies services to:

    • Remain in/Return to
    • Find work
    • Access to further education and training

  • Contract Details

    Open Contracting ID

    ocds-h6vhtk-03c650

    Publication Source

    Find a Tender Service

    Procurement Stage

    Tender

    Procurement Method

    Open

    Procurement Method Details

    Open Procedure

    Procurement Category

    Services

    Tender Suitability

    Framework / DPS

  • Contract Classification

    CPV Code(s)

    79600000

    CPV Division(s)

    79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

  • Awarding Authority

    EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

    Buyer Name

    Buyer Email

    tania.antony2@nhs.net

    Buyer Phone

    Buyer Address

    9 Alie Street

    London

    E1 8DE

    United Kingdom