Residential health facilities services

Description

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham Women and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Forward Thinking Birmingham are looking to develop a multi-agency collaborative to provide short stay environments for individuals experiencing an acute mental health crisis, aged 18+. This provision will provide support where an inpatient admission is not required or when an unrelated crisis situation is observed to have had a direct impact on their on-going mental health stability. The crisis would be viewed as ‘the moment when the typical activities of the service user’s day break down’. Access to the Crisis House facility will be managed through a number of clinical referral routes. Whilst not excluding any individual meeting the above criteria, users of the service will need to be fully compliant with the behavioural expectations of the Crisis House and have a clear understanding that non-compliance with such agreement will lead to termination of stay. Users of the service can have several strictly time limited admissions throughout the year to support crisis, prevent escalation and hospital admission avoidance. The Crisis House will be a 24 hours, 7 day a week facility and provide a safe environment and support in which service users will receive immediate assistance in identifying the nature of the crisis and how this may be addressed. This will be achieved by using a model of co-production, solution focused and other brief interventions. The expected duration will be 3 to 5 days. We would be expecting the successful organisation to procure the premises and provide 24/7 staffing to support the individuals within the facility, whilst statutory services, particularly Home Treatment Teams, would provide the mental health care element as and when required. It is suggested the Crisis House would provide a total of 11 beds, comprising 7 mixed and 4 female only, with a financial envelope of circa 1 000 000 GBP per annum: to include flexibility for on-going transformational development, vision and potentials for invest to save. There is an indication that this will initially be for a 3-year period with an option to extend for a further 2 years on 1 year + 1 year basis. A stakeholder engagement event is scheduled for the morning of 10.3.2020. This will involve presentations regarding the model and also guidance and advice on how complete an effective tender using the online portal process. Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham Women and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Forward Thinking Birmingham are looking to develop a multi-agency collaborative to provide short stay environments for individuals experiencing an acute mental health crisis, aged 18+. This provision will provide support where an inpatient admission is not required or when an unrelated crisis situation is observed to have had a direct impact on their on-going mental health stability. The crisis would be viewed as ‘the moment when the typical activities of the service user’s day break down’. Access to the Crisis House facility will be managed through a number of clinical referral routes. Whilst not excluding any individual meeting the above criteria, users of the service will need to be fully compliant with the behavioural expectations of the Crisis House and have a clear understanding that non-compliance with such agreement will lead to termination of stay. Users of the service can have several strictly time limited admissions throughout the year to support crisis, prevent escalation and hospital admission avoidance. The Crisis House will be a 24 hours, 7 day a week facility and provide a safe environment and support in which service users will receive immediate assistance in identifying the nature of the crisis and how this may be addressed. This will be achieved by using a model of co-production, solution focused and other brief interventions. The expected duration will be 3 to 5 days. We would be expecting the successful organisation to procure the premises and provide 24/7 staffing to support the individuals within the facility, whilst statutory services, particularly Home Treatment Teams, would provide the mental health care element as and when required. It is suggested the Crisis House would provide a total of 11 beds, comprising 7 mixed and 4 female only, with a financial envelope of circa 1 000 000 GBP per annum: to include flexibility for on-going transformational development, vision and potentials for invest to save. There is an indication that this will initially be for a 3-year period with an option to extend for a further 2 years on 1 year + 1 year basis. A stakeholder engagement event is scheduled for the morning of 10.3.2020. This will involve presentations regarding the model and also guidance and advice on how complete an effective tender using the online portal process.