SC240063 Parent Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS)

Description

Procurement arranged under under The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, Route 3 Competitive Process. As part of a multilevel approach to support, intervention and services, the overall aims of a multi-disciplinary parent-infant mental health service are to: • support families who are finding it difficult to develop a positive relationship with their baby or young child to: • rectify and strengthen parent-infant relationships for families experiencing moderate-severe difficulties. • support colleagues in a range of universal and targeted services to promote and strengthen parent-infant relationships for families experiencing mild-moderate difficulties • work with a range of multi-agency colleagues to promote healthy development of parent-infant relationship difficulties. • provide parent-infant relationship expertise across the system. The overall objectives of the service are to: • Undertake clinical specialist assessment for families with moderate to severe difficulties. • Deliver specialist therapeutic evidenced based interventions for those assessed which directly address and rectify and strengthen parent and infant relationships. • Provide group and individual therapeutic interventions to parents/carers and their babies from conception to a child’s second birthday. • Improve the outcomes of parent infant relationships where there are difficulties. • Provide specialist parent infant mental health case consultation and supervision for the workforce who are offering a programme of sensitive evidence-based parent infant relationship interventions • Design and deliver relevant workforce development and training to build capacity across the system. Keywords: parent infant mental health, mental health, attachment