NW2024-67 Professional Therapeutic Pathway

This notice is to communicate the intention to award a contract under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Competitive Process’.<br/><br/>The Service Aims to act as a lead provider for independent and Voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) providers not currently commissioned by the Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care Board. The service will subcontract therapy from a range of accredited independent and VCFSE organisations to holistically meet the mental health needs of CYP, taking into account the family as a whole. The service will support CYP who are unable to access mainstream services due to either complexity or long waiting lists.<br/><br/>Outcomes<br/><br/>

• Ensure our CYP&F get the right support in the right place, at the right time.<br/>
• Reduced health inequalities by working with CYP who are unable to access mainstream services for a range of reasons.<br/>
• Improved access and experience for CYP with neurodiversity by tailoring packages of care to meet their needs<br/>
• Improved collaborative and integrated approaches to working with key stakeholders.<br/>
• Support a reduction in waiting lists for CYP mental health services by working with commissioned providers to deliver waiting list initiatives.<br/>
• Improved outcomes for CYP&F as CYP are receiving earlier intervention and getting the right support at the right time.<br/>
• Improved experience of mental health support services for CYP&F<br/><br/>The Professional Therapeutic Pathway (PTP) service will cover Norfolk & Waveney across a range of accessible sites and will deliver the following:<br/><br/>
• Support a reduction in CYP waiting lists across Norfolk and Waveney.<br/>
• Work with providers to establish a range of therapeutic interventions to meet identified need and demand.<br/>
• Work alongside the Access, Advice and Support service for CYP emotional wellbeing and mental health<br/>
• Ensure providers within the PTP have no more than one CYP waiting with a start date exceeding 4 weeks.<br/>
• Continuously identify and engage talking and creative therapy professionals to grow the PTP capacity and skill mix to meet need.<br/>
• Ensure that the PTP steering group continues to meet to agree and sign off future developments.<br/>
• Review at least annually unit costs across the collaborative members.<br/>
• Review at least annually referral process and reporting metrics with collaborative members.<br/>
• Review at least annually payment terms and contracting with PTP therapeutic organisations and individual practitioners.<br/>
• Provide regular reporting to Children and Young Person’s Alliance Executive Management Group (EMG) including performance against Key performance indicators (KPIs), successes, risks and future developments<br/>
• Review at least annually the traffic light system to ensure complexity of referrals are seen by appropriately experienced therapists.<br/>
• Maintain up to date quality and governance data on each subcontracted organisation to maintain high clinical governance.<br/>
• Collate, for each organisation, current capacity available.<br/>
• Ensure Mental health service data sets (MHSDS) submissions are sent on behalf of collaborative members, including activity and outcomes<br/>
• Ensure practitioners consistently use and report appropriate Routine Outcome Measures as part of their inclusion on the PTP<br/>
• Develop an approach which better responds to the increasing demand for support around CYP mental health and emotional wellbeing.<br/>
• Effectively align service provision within the THRIVE framework for system change<br/>
• Provide therapeutic services within a set of agreed standards and monitoring, in line with appropriate professional bodies e.g., British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), to ensure delivery of high-quality safe services.<br/>
• Develop robust clinical governance to ensure that quality and safety is maintained to the highest standard<br/>
• The service will ensure that therapists engaged in the PTP have adequate clinical supervision arrangements which follow NICE guidelines for frequency<br/><br/>This contract is for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years. The anticipated annual contract value is £450,000 per annum.