Occupational Health Services and Supplementary Services

The University of Southampton is looking to enter into an Eight (8) year contract for the provision of Occupational Health Services for both Staff and Students. The Provider shall deliver the services that support the University of Southampton in meeting the objectives of: • Meeting legislative requirements and maintaining duty of care to staff • Ensuring fitness to work and/or fitness to practice of staff and students. • Performing inoculations and vaccinations • The provision of counselling • Promoting physical and mental wellbeing amongst staff and students to optimise attendance, engagement, resilience, and performance. • Supporting staff and students with illness, injury or other medical or health requirements assisting in the prevention of health-related problems amongst the University of Southampton' staff and students as a result of their activities and providing assistance in the treatment of any such problems. • Assisting the University of Southampton to reduce levels of sickness absence. • Identifying trends in work-related absence and prioritising and tackling significant health and wellbeing-related issues. The Provider shall at the point of tendering hold Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service ('SEQOHS') accreditation or equivalent and this must be maintained for the duration of the contract. It is a requirement that the provider will ensure that any services conducted under the Contract meet the requirements of all relevant legislation, regulations, guidelines, and standards current at the time of delivery. This includes all Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Department for Education (DfE) standards applicable to the services. The University currently retains an in-house Occupational Health Manager to maintain the triage system, filtering OH requests ahead of referral to the external Provider. The Provider will be required to understand and operate in accordance with this process. The estimated Contract Value is in the region of £6,000,000 - £10,000,000 GBP (excluding VAT). It is expected that spend will gradually grow over the first few months of the contract and that additional services outlined in the spec may be added in over the course of the contract. Further details on anticipated spend can be found in File 2 of the tender pack.