Official UK procurement notice
Integrated Occupational Health (OH) and Staff Health & Wellbeing Services
Authority: Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe service plays an essential role in supporting staff through organisational change, enabling colleagues to perform at their highest potential, and contributing to overall operational efficiency by equipping managers to proactively manage attendance. It also leads the development of a comprehensive health and wellbeing framework that ensures staff feel engaged, supported, and provided with meaningful opportunities to enhance their health and wellbeing at work. As part of its core function, the service manages employee referrals effectively, delivering a wide range of interventions including attendance at case conferences, return to work advice-such as following infectious illness-and clinical management of blood borne virus exposures.
The service is delivered by a highly competent multidisciplinary team of health professionals and is professionally led by the Head of Occupational Health and Workforce Wellbeing, who oversees the implementation of the OH and Wellbeing Policy and provides assurance on the professional standards of the service. This leadership role reports to the Deputy Chief People Officer, and the service forms an integral part of the Workforce Directorate.
The proposed approach supports:
- Delivery of the NHS Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing Together Strategy 2023-2028
- The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and 2026/27 medium term planning guidance
- Recovery and improvement priorities for a Segment 3 Trust operating in a financially challenged, turnaround ICS
- Place based, preventative, and system led workforce wellbeing as an anchor institution
WUTH's Occupational Health service has been SEQOHS accredited since 2016, with the most recent reaccreditation on 02/02/2026. This is the nationally required accreditation for NHS OH services.
- The service is delivered in accordance with:
o NHS Elements of Health & Wellbeing Framework (2022)
o Department of Health "Green Book" 2020 vaccination guidelines
o NICE guidelines
- WUTH holds all required OH accreditations (SEQOHS), meets statutory data and governance standards, and is compliant with all national frameworks confirming suitability to deliver the OH service.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1WUTH deliver Occupational health and Wellbeing in Three pillars:Planned
WUTH deliver Occupational health and Wellbeing in Three pillars:
Pillar One : delivers a population health based, prevention led wellbeing strategy for the WUTH workforce, treating staff as a defined population with specific health needs and inequalities. This model introduces dedicated resource to identify workforce health risks, analyse data such as NSS results, sickness absence patterns, and local health inequalities, and design targeted wellbeing interventions informed by both internal assets and wider community resources. Pillar One leads trust wide wellbeing campaigns, coordinates large scale programmes including Well WUTH, TRiM, Mental Health First Aid and the Wellbeing Champions network and drives proactive initiatives aimed at improving resilience, reducing sickness absence, and strengthening uptake of mental health support pathways such as the EAP. A core feature of this model is its community integrated approach: working directly with local charities, voluntary-sector organisations, neighbourhood groups and social programmes to improve staff access to community based wellbeing resources that address the wider social determinants of health. This approach aligns directly with the organisation's commitment to community rooted wellbeing, preventative services aligned to workforce need, and strong integration with local authority and third sector partners, enabling a more accessible, place based offer for all staff across NHS sites.
Pillar Two: delivers WUTH's core clinical Occupational Health (OH) provision, offering a comprehensive range of services that support the health, safety and fitness for work of the Trust's workforce. This includes employment screening, vaccination and immunisation, health screening and surveillance, management referrals, sickness absence advice, return to work guidance, recommendations for reasonable adjustments, post exposure incident management, workplace assessments, general occupational health advice, and direct support for infection prevention, contact tracing, and outbreak management. WUTH provides a nurse led, multidisciplinary clinical OH service, bringing together Consultant Occupational Health Physicians, OH Physicians with specialist skills including Blood Borne Virus management, and experienced OH Specialist Nurses. The department delivers a fully NHS aligned vaccination and immunisation service with direct access to NHS laboratories, Infection Prevention and Control teams, and Trust wide outbreak management functions, ensuring seamless pathways, high clinical standards, and rapid, safe response to workplace health risks.
Pillar Three: delivers WUTH's fully NICE compliant stepped psychological care model, offering in house clinical provision at every stage to support staff mental health needs. Step 1 focuses on proactive mental wellbeing, with psychotherapist led workshops on stress, resilience, trauma awareness and coping skills, alongside team based psychoeducation following significant events such as child deaths or serious incidents. Step 2 provides BACP registered counselling through Health Assured, with WUTH being the highest regional user of the service. Step 3 offers Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) delivered by a Band 7 CBT Therapist, providing evidence based treatment for moderate to severe anxiety, depression and OCD in line with NICE guidance. Step 4 delivers specialist trauma therapy, including EMDR, led by a Band 8b Senior Psychotherapist for complex psychological presentations and post incident support for staff exposed to traumatic events. Alongside these stepped interventions, WUTH provides workforce wide psychological support through thematic workshops, critical incident debriefing and targeted team-based interventions following adverse events, ensuring comprehensive and accessible psychological care across the organisation.
Governance & Compliance
- Strong governance reporting into:
o Clinical Advisory Group
o Infection Prevention Control Committee
o Health & Safety Committee
o Workforce Steering Board
- The service complies with:
o Data Protection Act 2018
o UK GDPR
o DTAC (Digital Technology Assessment Criteria)
o DPIA requirements
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 7 May 2026, 08:51 BST
- Last source update
- 29 May 2026, 12:37 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-041698- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0692d7Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The intention is to award a contract using the most suitable provider process. WUTH's model introduces dedicated resource to delivering a population centric (workforce as a population) approach preventative wellbeing strategy across NHS sites. This includes: • Identifying workforce health need and inequalities with community partners • Designing targeted wellbeing interventions (drawing upon a range of assets including those in local community) • Delivering trust wide campaigns and resources • Leading proactive initiatives to improve resilience and reduce sickness absence ie- burn out works shops, resilience through change, e • Coordinating large scale programmes (Well WUTH- return to work programme for long term sickness, TRiM, Mental Health First Aid, Wellbeing Champions- to support staff in high risk/Traumatic areas) • Strengthening uptake of EAP and other mental health support and wellbeing platform uptake • The service will be embedded within Trust and delivered on staff need WUTH can offer: • A population health needs approach • Trust wide campaign development aligned to needs determined by staff experience and sickness data • Integrated public health approach • Community partnership coordination • Workforce culture and prevention embedding • Contribution to NHS organisational development programmes • Psychological safety and wellbeing strategic leadership. WUTH offers a Nurse-led, multidisciplinary clinical OH service including: • Consultant OHP • OH Physicians (including specialist skills in Blood Borne Viruses) • OH Specialist Nurses • A fully NHS aligned vaccination and immunisation service • Direct access to NHS labs, IPC teams and outbreak management Organisational Benefits • Faster decision-making and reduced delays in clinical pathways • Stronger control of workforce infectious disease risk • Seamless retention through integrated psychology and OH Physicians • Lower per episode cost compared to external physiotherapy commissioning. Also working directly with local community partners, including wellbeing charities, voluntary sector support, neighbourhood assets and local social programmes, enabling staff to access wider community based resources that address social determinants of health. This model can be delivered at place offering more opportunities for staff to access. This community integrated model is WUTH's commitment to: • Community rooted wellbeing • Preventative services aligned to workforce health needs (drawing upon key data such as NSS, Sickness absence and local health inequalities data) • Integration with local authority and third sector partners. Decision makers-Board approval & Finance & Performance & Digital Committee., and in addition Direcctor of People.
How it was run
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Timeline
29 May 2026 → 10 Jun 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published147 days ago29 May 2026, 12:37 BST
- Tender notice expected135 days ago10 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 release on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
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| — | TextVI.3 | This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The intention is to award a contract using the most suitable provider process. WUTH's model introduces de… | Following the publication of this notice, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) has agreed to abandon the PSR process whilst it undertakes a review of its future service delivery options. Further updates will be issued in due course, in alignment with the Trust's strategic objectives. |
Following the publication of this notice, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) has agreed to abandon the PSR process whilst it undertakes a review of its future service delivery options. Further updates will be issued in due course, in alignment with the Trust's strategic objectives.
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