Gloucestershire Mental Wellbeing Helpline - Soft Market Engagement

<p>Gloucestershire County Council wishes to engage with potential providers to ascertain market interest in providing a new service to provide early intervention anonymous (or pseudonymous) remote mental health and wellbeing support to adults in the county through a variety of contact methods. Feedback is also invited on the proposed service model/requirements.</p>
<p>In addition to this market engagement, the Council is currently running a 6-week public consultation to seek views on the option of:</p>
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<li>commissioning an open access, mental health and wellbeing helpline service for adults,&nbsp;</li>
<li>incorporating support for self-harm into the new helpline to enable people to receive support for self-harm alongside wider support for other mild-moderate mental health issues, such as anxiety, low mood etc.</li>
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<p>The proposed helpline would be for adults (those aged 18 years and above) presenting with mild-moderate and emergent mental health issues (including self-harm).&nbsp; This integrated Service would provide confidential, anonymous (or pseudonymous), early intervention support on an open access basis (i.e., no referral required).&nbsp;&nbsp; The service would be accessed through a variety of methods including online (webchat/instant messaging), telephone, text etc. with consideration for those with no or limited internet access.</p>
<p>Interested parties can download the <strong>Project Brief and Questionnaire </strong>(which should be used for sharing feedback) after clicking on the <em>Login and register interest in this opportunity</em>&nbsp;button.</p>
<p>Any queries relating to the soft market questionnaire, should be emailed to: <a>nicky.maunder@gloucestershire.gov.uk</a>.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgba(224, 62, 45, 1)"><strong>Please c</strong><strong><em>omplete and return your completed questionnaires to </em></strong><a style="color: rgba(224, 62, 45, 1)">nicky.maunder@gloucestershire.gov.uk</a><strong><em> by 5pm 22nd July 2022</em></strong>.</span></p>