PQ0243 - Emergency Duty Team Out of Hours Call Answering Service - AWARD

The Birmingham Children's Trust (BCT) Emergency Duty Team (EDT) service provides out of hours emergency cover for children's social care Monday to Friday between 17:15 and 08:45 (16:15 on Friday), and provides weekend cover for Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays. The service is made up of Professional Support staff who deal with call handling, and a Social Work team.

Monday to Friday the EDT professional support staff work until 00.45, Monday to Thursday and 23.45 Friday and on weekends and bank holidays from 8.45 - 00.45. When the professional support staff, are off duty Social Workers will pick up calls where possible, if at any times during the PSS working hours, or when Social Workers are not available to pick up calls a call handling service is required to manage calls coming into the service.

The call handling service will operate during the following times:

Monday to Thursday, 17:15 to 08:45 Friday 17:15 to 08:45 Monday Bank holidays

The call handling service will be required to do the following:

• oreceive calls
• otake referral details,
• ocomplete the standard referral form
• oforward the referral to EDT immediately

This contract will be for a period of 3 years commencing 1st April 2021 until 31st Mar 2024.

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Your completed quotation submission should be returned by noon on 19th February 2021 via the 'in-tend' system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc