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Suicide Bereavement Services

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Derby & Derbyshire ICB is intending to follow the Most Suitable Provider Process to award a contract for the provision of suicide bereavement and post-vention services in Derby & Derbyshire. The contract will be based on 3 years initial period with 2 additional years extension available. Lot 1: DDICB are intending to follow MSP process to award a contract for this service. The aim of the service is to support those bereaved by suicide to face the immediate, acute, disorientating, and painful experience of the first weeks and months after a suicide. The service also aims to support communities bereaved by suicide in partnership with local agencies and community groups. The delivery of this service will be based on the core standards and good practice model developed by SASP (Support After Suicide Partnership). The service will focus on evaluation, iteration and learning from the interventions. This will be key to ensuring that the service is effective, person-centred, and responsive to service users' needs, whilst also contributing to the evidence-base and informing the development of future provision. Aim: • To improve wellbeing • The service will offer and provide clinically appropriate evidence based and relevant therapies/approaches as recommended by the needs of the population and by NICE clinical guidelines to the defined target population, establishing the immediate support needs of the bereaved, enacting a plan for support, drawing on existing services/referral pathways. • Access to the service will be equitable across Derby and Derbyshire • The service will be safe and effective, delivered by appropriately trained staff, and where possible, professionally accredited in the treatment modality that is being delivered and within a governance framework. • Practitioners within the service will receive clinical supervision from clinicians with appropriate expertise and experience. • The service will work together with all appropriate agencies involved in addressing psychological and practical needs, drawing on all professional disciplines and evidence based therapeutic models. • The service will ensure equity of access and respond appropriately to the diversity of local need. • The service will be coproduced with people with lived experience. • The service will be proactive in raising awareness of the support it provides and the importance of timely support for those impacted by suicide • The service will ensure all those referred are contacted within 72 hrs (or less) of the death. • The service will ensure all those referred Receive a copy of the 'Help is at Hand' document, or another resource agreed with commissioners. • Conduct a follow-up assessment of support needs, enacting these accordingly. • Offer face to face support in community locations that are acceptable to the clients, are available across Derby and Derbyshire and remove any barriers to access the service. • Provide support and guidance through the Coroner's Inquest • Signpost to GP or mental health services if the bereaved person is identified as experiencing severe depression and/or is at risk of suicide. • Perform social auditing to identify other people who may be affected by the suicide e.g. school mates, work colleagues, neighbours. • Support those bereaved by suicide at key dates e.g. anniversary of death, birthday, Christmas. Objectives • To provide support to those who have been bereaved by suicide. • To reduce the stigma for those who have been bereaved by suicide. • To increase levels of hopefulness, satisfaction in daily activities and satisfaction in relationships in adults and children who are bereaved by suicide.

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3 months ago

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NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board

Contact:
Ruth Thomason
Email:
ruth.thomason@nhs.net

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