2324-0120 Mental Health Recovery Pathway Service

Description

The requirement The Mental Health Recovery Pathway service will provide a comprehensive proactive mental health early intervention and prevention offer for adults in Islington. Through a range of community interventions, the service will deliver recovery-focused practical and emotional wellbeing support to build resilience and achieve positive outcomes with residents. Islington Council is committed to early intervention and prevention and in 2023 published Fairer Together – a strategy for early intervention and prevention in Islington In Islington, we see early intervention and prevention as: proactive not reactive, focused on building capacity and relationships, joined up, rooted in communities and reducing the need for crisis or statutory services. Islington Adult Social Care’s vision is for the borough to be a place made up of strong, inclusive and connected communities, where regardless of background, people have fair and equal access to adult social care support that enables residents to live healthy, fulfilling and independent lives. This service will align with Adult Social Care’s operating model by proactively taking all opportunities to build on people's strengths, maximise their independence and connecting them with their community, ensuring equality and fairness throughout. Lot 1: As the value of the contract is above the threshold for wider advertising of the opportunity, a Contract Notice will be published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender Service. This procurement will be conducted in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, under Chapter 3 Section 7 Social and Other Specific Services (known as the “light touch” regime). Under Regulation 76 the council is free to establish a procedure, provided the procedure is sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment of economic operators (service providers). The procedure the council has designed is based on the open procedure. All economic operators (service providers) who successfully express an interest will automatically have access to the tender documents. Standard pre-selection questions will be part of the tender response and will need to be passed before evaluation of cost and quality aspects. Further details will be available in the procurement documents.