Specialised Commissioning Financial Support for Mental Health, Learning Disabilites, New Care Models and Genomics

The team is seeking financial support resources over a period of three months from May 2017 to August 2017. The required work will encompass providing financial support to the key NHS England service review programmes of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities; the pilot of New Care Models in Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS):and adult low and medium secure mental health services.

It is envisaged that the successful organisation who provides financial support will have relevant experience, detailed knowledge of the above key areas as well as possess accountancy qualifications. The support is also required to have detailed knowledge of the workings of these services within the overall NHS context.

Some of the key objectives for the support have been documented below:

Whole genome sequencing;

Mental Health and Learning Disability Support:

• Supporting the Mother and Baby Unit procurement relating to finance support and VFM assessments;

• Supporting the financial arrangements for additional MBU beds from existing units and the expansion of outreach where not already funded;

• CAMHS: supporting the implementation arrangements; particularly the overall national coordination of delivery plans and the impact on associated double running costs and changes to financial flows;

New Care Models - NCM Wave 1 Pilot Sites

• Review service data for completeness and quality in the current contract information dataset;

• Review and agree financial baseline adjustments for wave 1 pilot sites using 2016/17 month 12 activity data returns;

NCM Wave 2 Sites (from July 2017)

• Review service data for completeness and quality in the current contract information dataset;

• Financial support to wave 2 site hubs and lead provider organisations to review and finalise their baseline positions;

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