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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust On behalf of Health Education England Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme Procurement of IAPT Mindfulness Teaching Training Intervention Services And IAPT Couple Therapy for Depression Training Intervention Services

HealthcareCPV 85000000 85100000
Value£387k
Awarded11 Oct 2017
Published13 Sept 2017
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£387ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The project will deliver the following training : Couple Therapy for Depression for Relate Practitioners.

To deliver one of the two approved national curriculum for IAPT Couple Therapy for Depression for Relate Practitioners, including selection, teaching, supervision and assessment of competence (but not including provision of practice placements).

Supervision may be provided remotely via Skype or similar.

To work in close partnership with Relate at a national level to prioritise practitioners who are suitably qualified to enter the programme and who have specific commitments in place to deliver CTfD within or on behalf of IAPT services on completion of the training.

To be delivered in four cohorts in the following locations: • London (15 practitioners) • Norwich (14 practitioners).

Please note that Relate have requested a particular emphasis on behavioural elements of couple therapy for this location. • Leeds (15 practitioners) • Derby (15 practitioners) Bidders can bid for more than one lot.

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Teacher Training.

To deliver the approved national curriculum for IAPT MBCT Teacher Training, including selection, teaching, supervision and assessment of competence (but not including provision of practice placements).

Supervision may be provided remotely via Skype or similar.

To be delivered in 2-4 cohorts of 12-24 at accessible locations providing 12 training places to provider services in each of the following HEE LETB areas: 1.

North (Yorkshire and Humber, North East, North West) - 12 places 2.

London and South East (London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex) - 12 places 3.

South (South West, Thames Valley and Wessex) - 12 places 4.

Midlands and East (East Midlands, West Midlands and East of England) - 12 places Partnership arrangements are encouraged between training providers to ensure accessible delivery across England, and bidders can bid for more than one lot.

See Additional Information ( Section 5 ) for additional information and details of a Commissioner Communication event on 18 September.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The project will deliver the following training

The project will deliver the following training :.

02

To deliver one of the two approved

To deliver one of the two approved national curriculum for IAPT Couple Therapy for Depression for Relate Practitioners, including selection, teaching, supervision and assessment of competence (but not including provision of practice placements).

03

To work in close partnership with Relate

To work in close partnership with Relate at a national level to prioritise practitioners who are suitably qualified to enter the programme and who have specific commitments in place to deliver CTfD within or on behalf of IAPT services on completion of the training.

04

To deliver the approved national curriculum

To deliver the approved national curriculum for IAPT MBCT Teacher Training, including selection, teaching, supervision and assessment of competence (but not including provision of practice placements).

05

Partnership arrangements are encouraged between training providers

Partnership arrangements are encouraged between training providers to ensure accessible delivery across England, and bidders can bid for more than one lot.

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Sussex Partnership NHS FT with HEE IAPT Programme
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