Mental Health Community Connectors (Additional Roles and Responsibilities Scheme)

Tender description

The Mental Health Community Connector Service will comprise two, closely aligned, teams of specialist Connectors to serve Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; providing additional capacity to contributing Primary Care Networks. Funded via Mental Health ARRS, this service will provide equivalent of one Full-time Community Connector per PCN. Each community connectors will work with around 150 individuals per year who: - are not suitable for IAPT and do not reach thresholds for secondary services - currently rely on very regular GP appointments for sustained wellbeing, and for whom: • isolation is a key issue or • their mental health issues are exacerbated by other social issues i.e housing, relationship, physical health, finance/benefits, drugs and alcohol. Lot 1: The Mental Health Community Connector Service will comprise two, closely aligned, teams of specialist Connectors to serve Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; providing additional capacity to contributing Primary Care Networks. Funded via Mental Health ARRS CPFT is intending to award a contract to an existing provider following direct award process c Contract will be for one year with an exepected annual value of £701,354