Mental Health Community Options Services

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Tenders are invited by the Council and the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) from Providers with relevant experience and ability to demonstrate sufficient capacity for the provision of a Mental Health Community Options service which will support and enable individual's to work towards improving their own mental and physical wellbeing and recovery (the "Services").

Integrated Carers Options

A Service which will improve the support across the Kirklees area to Carers of individuals experiencing or who are in recovery from mental ill-health. It will also include those with dementia or neurodiverse conditions living in community settings and who have or are awaiting a formal diagnosis, those providing support to a person experiencing problematic substance misuse, including alcohol problems, or where an individual has a dual diagnosis involving co-existing mental health and substance misuse issues.

The Service will provide opportunities for Carers to experience a break from their caring role, through the provision of services for Carers and / or for those they care for and which will ensure the safety and dignity of the cared-for person.

The role of the Service will be to:

Provide a wide variety of support services to Carers, Carer Groups and Carer group leaders, and these will include:

• Listening and therapeutic interventions
• Short-term support options
• Learning opportunities, formal and informal training to carers and professionals
• The development and delivery of Carer Support Groups and Forums across the Kirklees area. The Carers groups and forums will be run at various times of the week, including evenings and weekends, according to the identified needs of Carers across the Kirklees area
• Collaborative working with other Carers Development Workers of mental health services and/or substance misuse issues in the development, planning and running of Carers activities and identification of the needs and gaps in services available, bringing these to the attention of the Commissioning Partners
• Specialist and local information for those seeking information on mental health, dementia, drug, alcohol and dual diagnosis Additional information: Initial contract is for 5 years with the option to extend for 2 x 12 months