Notice Information
Notice Title
Youth Worker Service to Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board
Notice Description
The service places Youth Workers in wards and clinics at the 3 Acute hospitals, playing a crucial role in supporting Children and Young People aged 11-25 years with Long Term Conditions and displaying low -medium level mental health issues. The Youth Workers provide a holistic, compassionate and trauma informed approach, having the time to begin to forge trusting relationships with the CYP that clinical staff may not be able to due to capacity, experience and perceived barriers of uniformed services.
Lot Information
Lot 1
NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board ("the ICB") is directly awarding a contract to the existing provider SMASH Youth Project in accordance with the criteria outlined in Regulation (9) of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The youth worker service will through early intervention and prevention reduce re-attendance in ED for less complex patients * Through early intervention and prevention reduce re-admissions to hospital * Improved clinical experience for CYP * Provide an integrated "handholding" support service to access longer term provider led or community based support and/or CYP mental health services. * Improve the overall hospital experience for CYP and their families/carers * Timely access to appropriate interventions and successful engagement in collaborative community and statutory services for improved mental and emotional well-being. * Reduction in subsequent medical appointments missed * Increased CYP adherence to treatment plans and subsequent improvement in initial/primary presented health condition * Increased time for clinical staff & CAMHS/AWP to focus on the medical needs of patients * Through early intervention improve the mental wellbeing of engaging CYP * Increased knowledge, empathy and understanding of working with CYP for clinical and hospital staff, through close working with and upskilling of hospital staff colleagues resulting in the clinical teams fully understanding the youth worker role, service, referral pathway options and benefits. * Reduce unwarranted variation and therefore improve health comes for CYP across BSW * Work in an integrated way with all stakeholders to improve the support provided for CYP and reduce the inequalities/inequity CYP face. * Receive regular supervision and mentoring from a Clinical Manager and have access to independent clinical supervision as appropriate. It is intended to award this to Barnardo's Services Limited. The contract will run from 1st July 2025 - 31st March 2026 and be valued at PS57,500. This notice has been published by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.
Procurement Information
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award 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 publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 09/06/2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-052752
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027865-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85100000 - Health services
85140000 - Miscellaneous health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £57,500 Under £100K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 27 May 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 21 May 20259 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET, SWINDON AND WILTSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- donnaharrington@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CHIPPENHAM
- Postcode
- N/A
- Post Town
- Not specified
- Country
- Not specified
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- Not specified
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- Not specified
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- Not specified
- Delivery Location
- TLK14 Swindon
-
- Local Authority
- Not specified
- Electoral Ward
- Not specified
- Westminster Constituency
- Not specified
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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