Published date: 12 November 2024

Last edited date: 13 November 2024

This notice was replaced on 12 November 2024

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Opportunity (published 12 November 2024, last edited 5 December 2024)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

  • Guidance services - 85312310

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£690,000

Procurement reference

BUCKSH001-DN749656-53470621

Published date

12 November 2024

Closing date

12 December 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2028

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Buckinghamshire Council's Public Health team are commissioning a Women's Community Health Worker Service (WCHW) on a pilot basis for 3 years only. The aim of the Service is to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of women (including women from key ethnic groups) living within the most deprived areas of Aylesbury and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire before, during and after their pregnancies. This will be achieved through recruiting and training five whole time equivalent Women's Community Health Workers to provide a range of targeted one-to-one, group and community-based activities that meet the needs of this population.

Community health workers are defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as:
"Providers who live in the community they serve and receive lower levels of formal education and training than professional health care workers such as nurses and doctors. This human resource group has enormous potential to extend services to vulnerable populations, such as communities living in remote areas and historically marginalized people, to meet unmet health needs in a culturally appropriate manner, improve access to services, address inequities in health status and improve health system performance and efficiency."

Community Health Workers will perform a variety of duties, across the four key themes (educational, navigational, support and intelligence), whilst working closely with voluntary and community sector colleagues, primary care, maternity, health visitors, public health, adult social care, community mental health teams and the Family Nurse Partnership.

ITT documents available at https://www.supplybucksbusiness.org.uk/

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Women's Community Health Worker Service (WCHW)

  • Opportunity
  • Published 12 November 2024

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Louise Wright

Address

Walton Street Offices
Aylesbury
HP20 1UA
England

Email

louise.wright@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

Website

https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/