Published date: 24 July 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 1 March 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Administrative healthcare services - 75122000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_130625/786690

Published date

24 July 2019

Closing date

1 March 2019

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

30 March 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The College of Occupational Therapists (COT) and Public Health England (PHE) share a common aim to close the disability employment gap and support people to remain in work or return to work after illness, injury or disability.

The Health and Work Champions project is a six month pilot project between COT and PHE that will run from November 2016 to approximately March 2017. COT will have to ineterview and train 26 Health and Work Champions by June 2017 .

Work Champions will focus on delivering a national programme about the importance and relevance of asking employment related questions and brief interventions with working age adults. Work Champions will deliver training sessions in their employing organisation to enable other health professionals to ask about employment, offer brief advice and refer on for further employment support when required. Work Champions will also take part in an evaluation of the project. They will work in partnership with COT, PHE, other Work Champions and the project evaluator. The evaluation will consider the impact of the training sessions delivered and impact of taking on the Work Champion role.

The project will support Health and Work Champions based in NHS organisations across England to deliver a standardized training module to healthcare professionals. The training module is designed to support healthcare professionals to understand the link between work and health and the potential benefit of employment for patients, to develop their skills in using work based questions as an assessment of global functionality and develop skills to be able to offer brief advice and refer on where required for more support.

The model of clinical champion peer to peer education cascade is based on a previous successful project by Public Health England, Physical Activity Clinical Champions, which trained 3,500 healthcare professionals over six months to increase their understanding of physical activity in clinical care.

The project

Award information

Awarded date

1 March 2019

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

30 March 2020

Total value of contract

£33,600

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Address

London

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Tim Purchase

Address

Manor Farm Road, Porton Down
Salisbury
SP4 0JG
England

Telephone

01980 612648

Email

tim.purchase@phe.gov.uk