Youth Worker Service to Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board

Description

The service places Youth Workers in wards and clinics at the 3 Acute hospitals, playing a crucial role in supporting Children and Young People aged 11-25 years with Long Term Conditions and displaying low -medium level mental health issues. The Youth Workers provide a holistic, compassionate and trauma informed approach, having the time to begin to forge trusting relationships with the CYP that clinical staff may not be able to due to capacity, experience and perceived barriers of uniformed services. Lot 1: NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board ("the ICB") is directly awarding a contract to the existing provider SMASH Youth Project in accordance with the criteria outlined in Regulation (9) of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The youth worker service will through early intervention and prevention reduce re-attendance in ED for less complex patients • Through early intervention and prevention reduce re-admissions to hospital • Improved clinical experience for CYP • Provide an integrated "handholding" support service to access longer term provider led or community based support and/or CYP mental health services. • Improve the overall hospital experience for CYP and their families/carers • Timely access to appropriate interventions and successful engagement in collaborative community and statutory services for improved mental and emotional well-being. • Reduction in subsequent medical appointments missed • Increased CYP adherence to treatment plans and subsequent improvement in initial/primary presented health condition • Increased time for clinical staff & CAMHS/AWP to focus on the medical needs of patients • Through early intervention improve the mental wellbeing of engaging CYP • Increased knowledge, empathy and understanding of working with CYP for clinical and hospital staff, through close working with and upskilling of hospital staff colleagues resulting in the clinical teams fully understanding the youth worker role, service, referral pathway options and benefits. • Reduce unwarranted variation and therefore improve health comes for CYP across BSW • Work in an integrated way with all stakeholders to improve the support provided for CYP and reduce the inequalities/inequity CYP face. • Receive regular supervision and mentoring from a Clinical Manager and have access to independent clinical supervision as appropriate. It is intended to award this to SMASH Youth Project . The contract will run from 1st July 2025 - 31st March 2026 and be valued at £115,000. This notice has been published by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.