--- title: "Mental Health Community Navigators - Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-e432ceec-0692-4dd8-a043-6b99edb4ae86" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-e432ceec-0692-4dd8-a043-6b99edb4ae86" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-e432ceec-0692-4dd8-a043-6b99edb4ae86.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-e432ceec-0692-4dd8-a043-6b99edb4ae86.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT" published: "2023-04-12" --- # Mental Health Community Navigators - Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Buyer: NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-e432ceec-0692-4dd8-a043-6b99edb4ae86 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-e432ceec-0692-4dd8-a043-6b99edb4ae86) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-e432ceec-0692-4dd8-a043-6b99edb4ae86.json) ## Summary The NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit is planning a procurement exercise for Mental Health Community Navigators in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The initiative falls under the Health and social work services industry category. The procurement stage is currently at the planning phase with an engagement end date set for April 21, 2023. The contract is expected to commence in August 2023, with potential further extensions. Businesses interested in healthcare services focused on mental health support, rehabilitation, and community services would find this tender opportunity suitable. The procurement process for Mental Health Community Navigators led by the NHS presents a strategic opportunity for healthcare service providers to engage in community-focused mental health support programmes. The initiative aims to enhance access to mental health services and promote recovery-focused tools and interventions. Businesses specialising in healthcare services, particularly those with a focus on mental health support, should consider participating in this procurement opportunity to contribute to improving mental health outcomes in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly area. ## Notice This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice and relates only to a pre-procurement market engagement exercise. As part of Community Mental Health Transformation, Cornwall Partnership Trust (CFT) are seeking to commission a minimum of 15 whole time equivalent (WTE) mental health community navigators. It is expected that there will be a minimum of one WTE per Primary Care Network (PCN) across the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly integrated care system. Mental health community navigators will work alongside clinicians at the initial point of contact in mental health services. They will offer advice, guidance and support for clients, enabling them to access appropriate services within their local communities and support them to manage their condition using recovery focused tools and interventions. All support offered to users will be tailored to their individual needs and be place based, (i.e. in the context of Integrated Care Systems, aligned to local authorities and patient flows of acute and primary care). The aim is to develop the mental health community navigator role for people with mental health needs, including those with a severe mental illness, who can often be marginalised and feel excluded and detached from the community in which they live. The navigators will: * Be part of a core Primary Care MDT (Multi-Disciplinary Team), working with other professionals and representatives from other agencies to agree the best approach for complex patients. * Offer early, holistic support for people with SMI (Severe Mental Illness), by using an asset-based approach with a role for all sections of the community, not just primary and secondary care services. * Contribute to removal of traditional barriers, for example between primary and secondary care, social care/ health care/ housing services, and health care. * Support people to access care closer to home. * Navigate and signpost individuals to employment & vocation, housing, substance, self-harm support as well as to other community assets. * Work closely with PCN mental health practitioners to support movement towards personal goals or access to other services, with a recovery focus. This may include motivational interviewing, solution focused approaches, emotion regulation, psychoeducation. * Facilitate equity of access for all of our populations, with a particular focus on 18-25year olds and older adults. * Contribute to improved access to physical health checks and interventions. * Offer and support individuals aged 18+ to access opportunities for rehabilitation, social, education, leisure, employment, community skills and recovery programmes. The Commissioner will be holding a market engagement/briefing event in late April 2023. Additional information: The contract is likely to commence in August 2023 and be for an initial term of 1 year, with a further two extension options of 1 year + 1 year. The maximum annual contract value is anticipated to be in the region of PS700,000. It is anticipated that a procurement exercise will be undertaken, with the opportunity likely to be advertised in May 2023. A market briefing event will be held virtually over MS Teams W/C 24th April 2023. Further details and confirmation of the date will be given to those who register and express an interest. To register your interest in attending the event, please complete the attached Market Engagement Questionnaire and return via the eProcurement system, Atamis. Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number); to gain full access to the market engagement questionnaire you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. If you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access and to be able to submit your market engagement questionnaire. Please return the questionnaire using the correspondence function within Atamis. This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit commissioners or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. Commissioners will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise. Interested parties should note that a response to this notice does not guarantee an automatic invitation to any subsequent formal procurement, which the commissioners will consider in due course. The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but are instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). This exercise is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioner. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ecc63317-3792-4606-82b7-2810b0a8c1af | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 12 Apr 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 21 Apr 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT | | Locality | BRISTOL | | Post town | Bristol | | Postcode | BS1 3NX | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLK5 West of England | | ITL 3 | TLK51 Bristol, City of | | Local authority | Bristol, City of | | Electoral ward | Central | | Westminster constituency | Bristol Central | | Delivery location | TLK South West (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85000000 - Health and social work services ## Release History - 12 Apr 2023 at 13:40 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ecc63317-3792-4606-82b7-2810b0a8c1af - 24 Mar 2023 at 13:45 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ecc63317-3792-4606-82b7-2810b0a8c1af ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ecc63317-3792-4606-82b7-2810b0a8c1af 12th April 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/4d976f98-f43c-4a56-9a79-95a3bbb8141a Market engagement questionnaire - http://health.atamis.co.uk/ eProcurement portal - to express interest and access to market engagement questionnaire ## Notice URLs - https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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