--- title: "Family Trauma Service" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-02d541" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-02d541" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02d541.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02d541.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST" published: "2021-08-16" --- # Family Trauma Service Buyer: MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02d541 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-02d541) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02d541.json) ## Summary The procurement process involves the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, which is seeking to establish a Family Trauma Service aimed at providing support to children, young people, autistic adults, and adults with learning disabilities. This tender falls under the health and social work services industry category, with a nationwide delivery requirement across the UK. Currently in the planning stage, the tender is scheduled for a future notice date on 16th September 2021. The process is initiated as a tender under a legal basis referencing the EU directive 32014L0024. This tender presents significant business opportunities for companies specialising in mental health support, therapeutic services, and trauma-informed care. Businesses that can offer innovative solutions for family trauma work, including psychotherapy and clinical support, would be well-suited to compete for this contract. The provision of 44 therapeutic sessions over one year aims to reduce the impact of complex trauma on families, which will require skilled practitioners who can foster trusting relationships and address the specific needs of affected families. ## Notice NHS England & NHS Improvement recognise that in order to support clinical teams to reduce the use of highly restrictive interventions such as segregation with children and young people, autistic adults and adults with a learning disability, strong clinical leadership with an underlying person-centred model is critical. Time and resources to focus on individuals with their families, creating culture change and supporting staff teams as well as the individual and their family and the system requires skilled intervention. This has resulted in the development of a partnership between the NHS-Led Provider Collaboratives and the Centre for Perfect Care at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to deliver the HOPES programme at scale nationally The HOPES model will consider trauma as part of the overall delivery and package of interventions, where a specific trauma need is identified the HOPES practitioner in conjunction with the HOPES clinical director and clinical team will discuss referral for individual trauma work on an as required basis. This provision and cost will be funded by the Procured Provider. Family Trauma Work There is evidence from families and organisations that support families of people that they are often traumatised by the experience of their son or daughter being sectioned and spending time in hospital. The whole process beginning with the removal from the family, the experiences of restraint and often segregation and seclusion to eventual discharge and transition out of hospital can be full of difficult and often traumatising actions that leave the whole family changed by the experience. Leaving families traumatised and continuing to further traumatise them does not lead to a good outcome and can lead to very real complications in the provision of future support. There is also evidence that that families who have experienced complex trauma will need long term trauma informed psychotherapy of at least one year duration. Alongside the delivery of the interventions to the person and the clinical team, this initiative will deliver family trauma work to those families who wish to engage. The proposal includes the offer of 44 therapeutic sessions (equivalent to one therapeutic year). The aim of the therapy would be to lessen the effect of complex trauma. This would be achieved by: * building a trusting therapeutic relationship with the family * enabling the family to be properly heard and understood * normalising the trauma responses that the family are experiencing * enabling a reality check about whether the anxiety they may still be experiencing is a valid response to what is happening in reality, or a hypervigilant response connected to previous trauma * allowing time and space for earlier levels of trauma to surface safely and have time to be processed The Clinical Case Manager will work in close parallel with the family's psychotherapist to ensure that any actual or perceived challenges within the system supporting the family are addressed. The role of the Clinical Case Manager is to support the family and the supportive network to be able to build more trusting relationships and to address real issues of concern where they exist. ### Lot Information Lot 1 NHS England & NHS Improvement recognise that in order to support clinical teams to reduce the use of highly restrictive interventions such as segregation with children and young people, autistic adults and adults with a learning disability, strong clinical leadership with an underlying person-centred model is critical. Time and resources to focus on individuals with their families, creating culture change and supporting staff teams as well as the individual and their family and the system requires skilled intervention. This has resulted in the development of a partnership between the NHS-Led Provider Collaboratives and the Centre for Perfect Care at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to deliver the HOPES programme at scale nationally. The HOPES model will consider trauma as part of the overall delivery and package of interventions, where a specific trauma need is identified the HOPES practitioner in conjunction with the HOPES clinical director and clinical team will discuss referral for individual trauma work on an as required basis. This provision and cost will be funded by the Procured Provider. Family Trauma Work There is evidence from families and organisations that support families of people that they are often traumatised by the experience of their son or daughter being sectioned and spending time in hospital. The whole process beginning with the removal from the family, the experiences of restraint and often segregation and seclusion to eventual discharge and transition out of hospital can be full of difficult and often traumatising actions that leave the whole family changed by the experience. Leaving families traumatised and continuing to further traumatise them does not lead to a good outcome and can lead to very real complications in the provision of future support. There is also evidence that that families who have experienced complex trauma will need long term trauma informed psychotherapy of at least one year duration. Alongside the delivery of the interventions to the person and the clinical team, this initiative will deliver family trauma work to those families who wish to engage. The proposal includes the offer of 44 therapeutic sessions (equivalent to one therapeutic year). The aim of the therapy would be to lessen the effect of complex trauma. This would be achieved by: * building a trusting therapeutic relationship with the family * enabling the family to be properly heard and understood * normalising the trauma responses that the family are experiencing * enabling a reality check about whether the anxiety they may still be experiencing is a valid response to what is happening in reality, or a hypervigilant response connected to previous trauma * allowing time and space for earlier levels of trauma to surface safely and have time to be processed The Clinical Case Manager will work in close parallel with the family's psychotherapist to ensure that any actual or perceived challenges within the system supporting the family are addressed. The role of the Clinical Case Manager is to support the family and the supportive network to be able to build more trusting relationships and to address real issues of concern where they exist. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019922-2021 | | 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 | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 16 Aug 2021 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 15 Sep 2021 | | 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 | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | | Locality | LIVERPOOL | | Post town | Liverpool | | Postcode | L34 1PJ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLD7 Merseyside | | ITL 3 | TLD71 East Merseyside | | Local authority | Knowsley | | Electoral ward | St Michaels | | Westminster constituency | Knowsley | | Delivery location | TLD7 Merseyside | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85000000 - Health and social work services ## Release History - 16 Aug 2021 at 12:36 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019922-2021 ## Notice URLs - http://www.merseycare.nhs.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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