Champions & Wayfinders: A Development Programme under Dorset POPP & Early Help Programmes

We are looking for an organisation to work with us and key stakeholders to take forward and expand a whole system approach to the Dorset Partnership for Older People Programme (POPP).

The current vision of Dorset POPP is ‘to build supportive communities to enable older people to remain living in their own homes for as long as they wish’ by developing responsive and appropriate services and activities at a localised level. The services are wholly funded by Dorset County Council and NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and is primarily a partnership between Dorset County Council, NHS Dorset CCG, the voluntary sector and local people.

The Champion Programme provides staff who currently work within the seven integrated health and social care localities to challenge and change the way that services are provided to local people. The Champions work with individuals, service providers, local communities and others to identify gaps in service delivery, as well as take forward and support localised opportunities to develop the way services are provided.

The Wayfinder Programme is part of the continuing work to provide an integrated range of services to people throughout Dorset. The Wayfinder staff work within identified cluster areas to provide signposting and support relating to any service that affects local people.

There is now a need to develop and extend this current approach to provide preventative and early help services to a broader section of our community. Both Wayfinders and Champions have a key role in identifying links and opportunities to expand our approaches to prevention and early help solutions which may sit outside of a traditional menu of health and social care service solutions.

In year one of this contract we will be looking to optimise opportunities to further develop our current model in which the successful service provider will play a key role in leading engagement with stakeholders and developing proposals for further change by identifying ways of expanding the existing best practice model to be accessible to all adults.

This tender is for a contract starting on 01 August 2016 for a period of three years to 31 July 2019 with an option to extend for up to a further two (1 + 1) years dependent upon performance during the initial contract period and continued availability of funding. Continuation from year one to two will be dependent on both delivery against the key performance indicators and satisfactory service model development during year one of the contract.