Staffordshire CYP Care Co-ordinator Role

The partner organisations, Health and Education, are jointly seeking a provider who can provide the services of a Care Co-ordinator for co-ordinating all the health and education services provided for a young person as specified in the Education, Health and Care Plan.

The care co-ordinator will be a qualified health professional with experience of autism and attachment- based difficulties and learning difficulties

The role will undertake the following primary activity

• One weekly session of one- hour duration - to ensure consistency and liaison between services and therapists and family.

• An initial preparation session to include report reading and liaison with professionals and family. This will be for a minimum of one day duration and will be in addition to the weekly session.

• Organise and attend half termly professionals' meetings and provide an annual written progress report and attend the EHCP annual review

• This role will work closely with the Local Authority and the post 16 education provider where some of the health services are delivered, alongside universal health services outside the educational setting.

• The Services to be co-ordinated include all health provision some of which may be delivered through College, Universal Health Services, Psychology, Mental health universal services, Primary care GP, Social Care and Education provision

The co-ordination role is expected to include:

• Involvement in relevant multi-agency meetings and education reviews.

• Liaison with the YP, their family and involved agencies and professionals

The service is intended to last for approximately 39 weeks mirroring the academic year with a fixed price per hour. Commissioners are looking for quotations from suitably qualified and competent providers, to deliver a high quality service. Commissioners are aiming to award and service to start as soon as possible on a date to be agreed.

Organisations interested in submitting a quotation should visit the MLCSU Bravo solutions portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk and register/log in to see further details and instructions on how to submit a quotation. Any queries and quotations must be sent via this portal. A deadline for receipt of quotations has been set for Friday 30th April 2021 12:00 hrs midday.

Additional information:

Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the best scoring quotation, or any quotation received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new quotations should it consider this necessary.

The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or bidder in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.

Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the Contracting Authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.

Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.

This tender will be operated via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. Details will be made available via documentation and information released during the ITQ process.

This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

Candidates wishing to participate must register at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk