Notice Information
Notice Title
SC240063 Parent Infant Mental Health (PIMHS)
Notice Description
PIN - Parent Infant Relationship Mental Health Service (PIMHS) Kent County Council (KCC) are anticipating procuring a Parent-Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Service to be in place from November 2025. Please note that this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is not a call for competition at this stage. We are seeking an organisation that can provide and manage a Multidisciplinary team of Clinical psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Specialist Parent-Infant Mental Health Practitioners, Psychotherapists and mixed providers with clinical expertise who can bring a range of skills to help deliver this proposed new and ground breaking service for Kent. The proposed service would be made up of: Overall Clinical Lead for the Multidisciplinary Team - 1 Band 8C WTE Specialist Clinical Lead and Clinical Lead to the Operational Team - 1 Band 8A WTE Operational Team Specialist Practitioner - 3 Band 7 WTE ( 3 WTE from year 2 onwards) Administrator - Minimum of 1 WTE The draft Service specification: outlines an approach for the market to consider and KCC would like organisations to come together at an in-person market engagement event with other agencies for an opportunity to collaborate on how you could deliver this proposed service. Please note updates have been made to the safeguarding sections of the draft Service specification and updated throughout to reflect how the proposed service could be delivered by a provider or providers who would like to work in a collaborative partnership. The provider will need to create and maintain a Kent Parent Infant Mental Health website to support parents, families and professionals in Kent. The website will need to provide a range of resources tailored to support both parents, families and professionals. This proposed service for Kent will engage families, embedding support and helping them to form healthy relationships with their infant. You will be flexible in your approach to meet the differing needs of our population, including children in deep poverty as well as neurodivergent parents. Screening tools such as GAD7 will be utilised to identify need and interventions required. We are open to suggestions of alternative, evidence based models and any other feedback you may wish to provide. The proposed service will work as a team supporting families with identified needs who may have been referred by the health visiting service, accredited Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) practitioners and trained baby massage practitioners. Next steps: Please complete and return attached questionnaire and any feedback or extra questions by 12pm on Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Sophia.Dunstan@Kent.gov.uk Parent-Infant Mental Health Service Pre-Market Questionnaire & Registration Form (open in browser) https://forms.office.com/e/1hxhFz0iXu Market Engagement Event - Online Day: Wednesday 23rd April 2025 Time: 12:00-13:00 Location - Microsoft Teams To register for this event, please click the link below; copy and paste link in browser (please complete and return by 12pm Wednesday 16th April 2025): https://forms.office.com/e/1hxhFz0iXu If you have any questions or need assistance, please email: Sophia.Dunstan@Kent.gov.uk Documents included: Pre-market Questionnaire and Registration Form Parent Infant Mental Health Draft Specification Parent Infant Mental Health Overview Slides
Lot Information
Lot 1
PIN - Parent Infant Relationship Mental Health Service (PIMHS) Kent County Council (KCC) are anticipating procuring a Parent-Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Service to be in place from November 2025. Please note that this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is not a call for competition at this stage. We are seeking an organisation that can provide and manage a Multidisciplinary team of Clinical psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Specialist Parent-Infant Mental Health Practitioners, Psychotherapists and mixed providers with clinical expertise who can bring a range of skills to help deliver this proposed new and ground breaking service for Kent. The proposed service would be made up of: Overall Clinical Lead for the Multidisciplinary Team - 1 Band 8C WTE Specialist Clinical Lead and Clinical Lead to the Operational Team - 1 Band 8A WTE Operational Team Specialist Practitioner - 3 Band 7 WTE ( 3 WTE from year 2 onwards) Administrator - Minimum of 1 WTE The draft Service specification: outlines an approach for the market to consider and KCC would like organisations to come together at an in-person market engagement event with other agencies for an opportunity to collaborate on how you could deliver this proposed service. Please note updates have been made to the safeguarding sections of the draft Service specification and updated throughout to reflect how the proposed service could be delivered by a provider or providers who would like to work in a collaborative partnership. The provider will need to create and maintain a Kent Parent Infant Mental Health website to support parents, families and professionals in Kent. The website will need to provide a range of resources tailored to support both parents, families and professionals. This proposed service for Kent will engage families, embedding support and helping them to form healthy relationships with their infant. You will be flexible in your approach to meet the differing needs of our population, including children in deep poverty as well as neurodivergent parents. Screening tools such as GAD7 will be utilised to identify need and interventions required. We are open to suggestions of alternative, evidence based models and any other feedback you may wish to provide. The proposed service will work as a team supporting families with identified needs who may have been referred by the health visiting service, accredited Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) practitioners and trained baby massage practitioners. Next steps: Please complete and return attached questionnaire and any feedback or extra questions by 12pm on Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Sophia.Dunstan@Kent.gov.uk Parent-Infant Mental Health Service Pre-Market Questionnaire & Registration Form (open in browser) https://forms.office.com/e/1hxhFz0iXu Market Engagement Event - Online Day: Wednesday 23rd April 2025 Time: 12:00-13:00 Location - Microsoft Teams To register for this event, please click the link below; copy and paste link in browser (please complete and return by 12pm Wednesday 16th April 2025): https://forms.office.com/e/1hxhFz0iXu If you have any questions or need assistance, please email: Sophia.Dunstan@Kent.gov.uk Documents included: Pre-market Questionnaire and Registration Form Parent Infant Mental Health Draft Specification Parent Infant Mental Health Overview Slides
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ff2b
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013792-2025
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85323000 - Community health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 8 Apr 202510 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 7 Apr 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planned
- Lots Status
- Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- KENT COUNTY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Sophia Dunstan
- Contact Email
- sophia.dunstan@kent.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 3000414214
Buyer Location
- Locality
- MAIDSTONE
- Postcode
- ME14 1XQ
- Post Town
- Rochester
- Country
- England
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ4 Kent
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ45 Mid Kent
- Delivery Location
- TLJ4 Kent
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- Local Authority
- Maidstone
- Electoral Ward
- Penenden Heath
- Westminster Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling
Further Information
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