Tender: Intensive and Assertive Outreach Sub-Contract – Recovery and Outreach for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in Norfolk & Suffolk

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is seeking a sub-contractor for an Intensive and Assertive Outreach (I&A) Service across Norfolk and Suffolk to deliver intensive, proactive and flexible community-based care for individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) who present with elevated complexity and risk and who struggle to engage with traditional mental health services. The sub-contractor will work as an integrated partner with NSFT clinical teams to provide assertive engagement and outreach (including doorstep engagement, frequent and persistent contact and daily visits where required, accompaniment to appointments, and in-reach into hospitals or prisons), practical support for daily living, community participation and social inclusion, support to access healthcare (including mental health care), non-clinical medication support, substance misuse and harm reduction, carer and family support, and contribution to risk management, delivering outreach across urban, rural and coastal communities and to service users placed outside their immediate locality; the full service specification and procurement documents are available from [email protected].