Community Development Manager and Community Health Connectors

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NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP), hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board require support for the accelerated development of multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working and community development approach in order to further progress work in respect of community development and empowering individuals to take more control over their health and wellbeing and also reduce the demands on both GP practice and hospital based services. Lot 1: South East Cardiff Cluster The South East Cardiff Cluster consists of 8 practices who work in collaboration with other key statutory and non-statutory services to meet the needs of the local populations (circa 65,000) This cluster has a history of successful joint working with a wide range of key partners and is currently delivering a range of innovative projects aimed at helping the population of the cluster to be able to manage their own health and wellbeing needs. The South East Cardiff Cluster is seeking to commission a community development lead worker and a team of Community Health Workers (CHWs) to; a) Develop a database of support services in the community b) Develop and provide a telephone service to signpost patients to support c) Engage in the use of the Elemental software platform to enable seamless referrals to social prescribing across the cluster. d) Identify service gaps and propose opportunities to fill them e) Assist community groups to become self-sustaining f) Support organisations and networks to work together to deliver the objectives of the cluster g) Create a seamless interface with existing Social Prescribing models already operating in the cluster Lot 2: South West Cluster Over the last The South West Cluster consists of 10 GP practices who work in collaboration with other key statutory and non-statutory services to meet the needs of their local population (66,000 people) Although not yet a formal ‘entity’ this cluster has a history of successful joint working with a wide range of key partners and is currently delivering a range of innovative projects aimed at helping the population of the cluster to be able to manage their own health and wellbeing needs. Following a successful bid to Welsh Government –‘Me, My Home, My Community’, Cardiff South West Cluster has secured transformation funding in order to support the accelerated development of multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working and community development approach in order to further progress work in respect of community development and empowering individuals to take more control over their health and wellbeing and also reduce the demands on both GP practice and hospital based services. The South West Cluster is seeking to commission a similar model as outlined in the other lots for this Cluster with the following expectation from any awarded bidder; a) Develop a database of support services in the community b) Develop and provide a telephone service to signpost patients to support c) Support the development of the Elemental software platform to enable seamless referrals to social prescribing across the cluster. d) Identify service gaps and propose opportunities to fill them e) Assist community groups to become self sustaining f) Support organisations and networks to work together to deliver the objectives of the cluster g) Create a seamless interface with existing Social Prescribing models already operating in the cluster Lot 3: North Cardiff The North Cardiff Cluster consists of 10 GP practices who work in collaboration with other key statutory and non-statutory services to meet the needs of their local population (103,000 people). This cluster has a history of successful joint working with a wide range of key partners and is currently delivering a range of innovative projects aimed at helping the population of the cluster to be able to manage their own health and wellbeing needs. The Cluster has received funding from the Health Board/ Welsh Government to support the accelerated development of multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working and community development approach in order to further progress work in respect of community development and empowering individuals to take more control over their health and wellbeing and also reduce the demands on both GP practice and hospital based services. The Cluster is seeking to commission a similar model to the other lots with a team of Community Development Lead Workers and Health Connector Workers alongside the awarded bidder providing administration and engagement support to maintain delivery of the service.