Enhanced Primary Care Peer Supporter Service Delivery Specification Enhanced Primary Care Peer Supporter Service Title: Background Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is the local provider of mental health services across the county. Following a review by mental health commissioners, a new service specification for primary care mental health, which includes enhanced primary care services and stronger links with the voluntary and community sector, has been developed. The new model of delivery was launched in April 2016 and a number of new community wellbeing programmes are being set up in line with the new service specification. As part of the new Enhanced Primary Care Mental Health Service, we are seeking a maximum of 6 voluntary community sector organisations who have an established base in Worcestershire to work with us to provide an infrastructure and network of services providing peer supporter across the county. This will initially be for a period of 12 months from the service start date. Purpose The new service specification recognises that a number of secondary care patients, with well managed long term conditions would be better supported within the enhanced primary care service. It has also been recognised that for some patients, the transition from secondary care to the enhanced primary care service could induce stress and feelings of increased vulnerability. To help to guard against this, to ease the transition and to support the development of the new service, we are seeking a number of voluntary and community sector organisations to cover the 6 districts of Worcestershire to develop a Peer Supporter Service. To this end, we are seeking to the capacity of voluntary and community organisations who are able to enhance peer supporter services that they might already provide, or set up a new peer supporter service to enable them to meet the needs of people who have moved from secondary care to primary care services. The provider will develop and provide an infrastructure of Peer Supporters who will work across local communities, supporting people who are in receipt of Primary Care Mental Health Services, having recently stepped down from Secondary Care. This service will provide support for people alongside Gateway Workers and other Primary Care service offerings. The peer supporters will be community based, will not have formal qualifications
Enhanced Primary Care Peer Supporter Service Delivery Specification Title: Enhanced Primary Care Peer Supporter Service Background Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is the local provider of mental health services across the county. Following a review by mental health commissioners, a new service specification for primary care mental health, which includes enhanced primary care services and stronger links with the voluntary and community sector, has been developed. The new model of delivery was launched in April 2016 and a number of new community wellbeing programmes are being set up in line with the new service specification. As part of the new Enhanced Primary Care Mental Health Service, we are seeking a maximum of 6 voluntary community sector organisations who have an established base in Worcestershire to work with us to provide an infrastructure and network of services providing peer supporter across the county. This will initially be for a period of 12 months from the service start date. Purpose The new service specification recognises that a number of secondary care patients, with well managed long term conditions would be better supported within the enhanced primary care service. It has also been recognised that for some patients, the transition from secondary care to the enhanced primary care service could induce stress and feelings of increased vulnerability. To help to guard against this, to ease the transition and to support the development of the new service, we are seeking a number of voluntary and community sector organisations to cover the 6 districts of Worcestershire to develop a Peer Supporter Service. To this end, we are seeking to the capacity of voluntary and community organisations who are able to enhance peer supporter services that they might already provide, or set up a new peer supporter service to enable them to meet the needs of people who have moved from secondary care to primary care services. The provider will develop and provide an infrastructure of Peer Supporters who will work across local communities, supporting people who are in receipt of Primary Care Mental Health Services, having recently stepped down from Secondary Care. This service will provide support for people alongside Gateway Workers and other Primary Care service offerings. The peer supporters will be community based, will not have formal qualifications
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