Newham Community Bereavement Service

The London Borough of Newham is seeking to appoint a Provider that is able to provide Community Bereavement Care Service to support bereaved individuals, anticipating grief reactions and providing a variety of interventions to minimise the degree to which these effects impact on their life, health and relationships - enabling them to adapt, adjust and cope with life without the person who has died.

The Service will help support people with their grief, to minimise the negative effect it has on them. The service will also provide support to those bereaved as a result of Covid-19 offering Early Bereavement Support as well as Bereavement Counselling and Long term Trauma Support.

The Provider shall deliver 5 elements:

Element One: One-to-One (1:1) Bereavement Counselling

Element Two: Peer Support

Element Three: Early Bereavement Support (EBS)

Element Four: Long term Trauma Support (LTS)

Element Five: Specialist Bereavement support to customers with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism

The outcomes to be delivered by the Service are:

1. Customers are better informed about practical issues related to their bereavement as a result of accessing the advice and guidance service.

2. Customers have improved mental health and emotional wellbeing as a result of accessing counselling.

3. Customers have reduced feelings of isolation and loneliness as a result of accessing the peer support service.

4. Customers report they are better adjusted, adapted and better able to cope with life after accessing the Service.

All interested Bidders can submit a Bid for this Procurement. The Authority is using the Newham Fusion Procurement Portal for the Procurement Process and you have to register as a supplier in the link below to be able to access the opportunity at Newham Fusion Portal:

https://elyq.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/fscmUI/faces/PrcPosRegisterSupplier?prcBuId=300000002089195

Newham Fusion Reference: ITTN28

Contract start date: 1st October 2021

Duration of the contract: 3 years with the possibility of 2 years of extension