Provision of Family Therapy Services in Plymouth to NHS Devon CCG

Service Description:

A targeted systemic family therapy service. The service will:

• Provide systemic family therapy interventions to meet children and young people's mental health needs (this includes a comprehensive list of potential interventions -for more detail see Appendix 1); • Support parents and carers; and • Liaise with the wider children and young people's workforce and, where appropriate, adult services (e.g. adult mental health services).

Provision of targeted systemic family therapy delivers more intensive input than is available at a universal level, implementing evidence based interventions that require specific skills and training, to provide help and support for children and young people who have moderate mental health needs.

The provider will ensure that the targeted service will provide systemic family therapy intervention for children and young people with a wide range of moderate mental health needs, including, but not limited to, children and young people with emotional problems (such as anxiety and depression), eating disorders, conduct disorder or behavioural difficulties, and somatic disorders.

The annual budget is circa £80,000 per annum.

Service requirements:

The provider will make arrangements to ensure a family therapy team of appropriate size and with the relevant professional competencies, training and support to deliver effective targeted interventions for children and young people with moderate mental health needs, in line with the requirements of Standard Nine of the NSF for Children, Young People and Maternity Services.

The provider will treat all children, young people and carers with respect and dignity, ensuring they are appropriately safeguarded and are enabled to contribute to planning their care, enabling choice and care that is personalised wherever possible.

The provider will deliver care to children, young people and their families in a non-stigmatising environment, working as part of a wider network of comprehensive CAMHS in Plymouth.

This process is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners, NHS Devon CCG.

Additional information: NHS Devon CCG will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.

Based on the market awareness and findings gathered from this process the commissioner may or may not engage in a competitive process. Should it be deemed that there is sufficient interest and capability in the market and subject to commissioner decisions interested parties should be aware that this notice may then be used to trigger as a call for competition and in that scenario no other notices will be placed before the competition is commenced. For the sake of clarity, interested parties should be aware that in that event any subsequent competitive process undertaken will not be advertised.

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Interested providers will be able to complete a questionnaire by no later than Friday 7th January 12pm Noon via the following link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=slTDN7CF9UeyIge0jXdO4_N-XT40_TRCuO1Sol2rQE9UQlNROUtWOElROVlKM0I1SE04SUVLTk9VRC4u

The data will be handled securely and none of the information collected will be published publicly nor shared with other suppliers.

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 is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).