Health and social work services

Tender description

Sefton Council is looking to contract with a provider to develop and operate a flexible, specialist stop smoking service that will form part of Sefton’s Living Well Service (LWS) for Sefton residents. Acting as a specialist spoke for the LWS; the stop smoking service will assist residents across all age groups to stop smoking. The service will reduce the number of smokers through access to high quality, evidenced based stop smoking opportunities within local community settings across Sefton. The stop smoking service will provide a range of free, person centred, interventions; using behaviour change techniques and motivational interviewing to tailor health, well-being and lifestyle support and interventions to the population of Sefton, delivered in community settings. Sefton Council is looking to contract with a provider to develop and operate a flexible, specialist stop smoking service that will form part of Sefton’s Living Well Service (LWS) for Sefton residents. Acting as a specialist spoke for the LWS; the stop smoking service will assist residents across all age groups to stop smoking. The service will reduce the number of smokers through access to high quality, evidenced based stop smoking opportunities within local community settings across Sefton. The stop smoking service will provide a range of free, person centred, interventions; using behaviour change techniques and motivational interviewing to tailor health, well-being and lifestyle support and interventions to the population of Sefton, delivered in community settings. The service will be driven to achieve a reduction in smoking prevalence in adults who require the most support, including people with poor mental health, pregnant women and people living in areas of greatest deprivation. The service will develop a new approach to support children and young people who/or who are at risk of smoking tobacco and/or e-cigarettes. The service will offer motivational support and pharmacotherapy for people who choose to harm reduce with the longer-term goal of quitting. The service will support people who choose to use e-cigarettes in their attempt to quit. Specifically, the service will provide motivational support and the offer of pharmacotherapy. The service will provide professional advice and training to LWS partners who are involved in encouraging and supporting people to reduce harm and stop smoking in Sefton. The service will develop an effective relationship management programme with key stakeholders, including GP’s, Pharmacies, Maternity, Mental Health, Substance Use, 0-19, LWS partners and wider community partners. Stop smoking service will provide triage and assessment function for the wider LWS offer, to ensure that people needing help and advice to get the most appropriate and timely intervention. The contract term is 1.4.2020 to 31.3.2023 with 2 x 1 years options.