Dynamic Purchasing System for Residential Substance Misuse Rehabilitation Services

Effective treatment and recovery requires a range of services and interventions including;

specialist clinical services offering opiate replacement treatment, stabilisation and reduction

programmes, medically assisted alcohol withdrawal programmes, psychosocial

interventions and support, non-structured support including mutual aid, harm reduction

services, including needle and syringe programmes and referral pathways to related health

and social care services as well as residential rehabilitation programmes.

Sefton Council invited expressions of interest from established Service Providers to join

a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for selection and commissioning of Residential

Substance Misuse Rehabilitation Services. The Council will commission

rehabilitation placements at three levels, Standard, Enhanced and Specialist and Service

Providers were invited to submit bids against one or more levels.

Sefton Council ranh this procedure under the Light Touch Regime.

The Council requires service provision under the DPS at the following level :

Level 1 Standard – 18 years old with no upper age limit:

Rehabilitation placements commissioned at this level will:

• Provide multi-cultural programmes to meet the needs of a diverse population
• Provide disability access and where required will provide disability aids
• Will carry out pre-admission assessment in conjunction with Residential Detoxification

Services and Sefton Adult Social Care Substance Misuse Assessment Team

• Provide a programme of structured intervention including but not limited to: psychosocial

and recovery support interventions

• Comply with all National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) reporting

requirements

• Complete detailed discharge reports and outcome records for all planned and unplanned

discharges

• Provide Sefton Council Adult Social Care Substance Misuse Assessment Team with regular

(not less than monthly) Client Progress Review Reports

• Provide family support
• Provide career guidance and training opportunities
• Support a ‘whole family’ approach to working with children and families
• Provide pre-discharge planning and liaison with the Adult Social Care Substance Misuse

Assessment Team to agree community re-integration programmes