Contract details

Medway Council

Children and Adults

Support To Live At Home - Home Care & Extra Care - Version 2

Framework Agreement for the Provision of Support to Live at Home – Home Care and Extra Care Services HOME CARE Homecare is the term used to describe domicillary care services. These services will be commissioned by Medway Council in order the meet the assessed needs and desired outcomes if Service Users. The ultimate aims of the services are to: I. Ensure that service users remain as independent as possible and providers work in an enabling way that maximises and promotes the service user’s independence and does not foster dependency. II. Ensure that providers work towards an integrated care system whereby all key stakeholders including but not restricted to service users, service users families, providers, carers, health care professionals, , health care workers, voluntary community services, healthy lifestyle services and social prescribing services work together to achieve the service users desired outcomes III. Ensure that Social Prescribing Methodology is trained and embedded into care practices to help prevent social isolation and to improve the overall health and wellbeing of the service users. IV. Ensure that service users are enabled to maintain their independence with appropriate care in their own home The Homecare Services under this Framework Agreement will be available to adults over the age of eighteen [18] who meet the Council’s eligibility criteria for services. EXTRA CARE An Extra Care Scheme is a mixed-use scheme enabling older people with a range of care and support needs to live independently in their own homes. Service users will be fifty five [55] and over including those sensory needs, mental disorder including dementia, short or long term illnesses and those who require end of life care. It develops the concept of housing where older people can have their needs met through the security and privacy of a tenancy but within a socialising environment. The ultimate aims of the services are to: I. Ensure that service users remain as independent as possible and providers work in an enabling way that maximises and promotes the service user’s independence and does not foster dependency. II. Ensure that providers work towards an integrated care system whereby all key stakeholders including but not restricted to service users, service users families, providers, carers, health care professionals, , health care workers, voluntary community services, healthy lifestyle services and social prescribing services work together to achieve the service users desired outcomes III. Ensure that Social Prescribing Methodology is trained and embedded into care practices to help prevent social isolation and to improve the overall health and wellbeing of the service users. IV. Ensure that service users are enabled to maintain their independence with appropriate care in their own home The Extracare Services under this Framework Agreement will be available to adults over the age of fifty-five [55] who meet the Council’s eligibility criteria for services. Section 2 For Homecare, Medway Council is seeking to appoint suitably experienced Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered homecare agencies to this Support to Live at Home - Homecare Framework. The Homecare Framework covers the whole of Medway as seen in the Ward Map (Fig 1) and the Ward Data (Table 1) below: Ward Data - Medway Towns 1 Chatham Central 2 Cuxton and Halling 3 Gillingham North 4 Gillingham South 5 Hempstead and Wigmore 6 Lordswood and Capstone 7 Luton and Wayfield 8 Peninsula Princes Park 10 Rainham Central 11 Rainham North 12 Rainham South 13 River 14 Rochester East 15 Rochester South and Horsted 16 Rochester West 17 Strood North 18 Strood Rural 19 Strood South 20 Twydall 21 Walderslade 22 Watling In order for the Council to achieve its strategic aims and objectives of all of its residents receiving an outcomes-based service, Medway is split into three localities. These locality areas mirror those of Medway Council Social Work teams, See below ward allocation per locality (Table 2). Locality Ward Allocation.: Locality 1 ME7 / ME8 Rainham (45,570) ME7 Rainham North Rainham Central Rainham South Balmoral (54,884) ME8 Gillingham North Gillingham South Hempstead and Wigmore River Twydall Watling Locality 2 ME4 / ME5 Lordswood (56,338) ME4 Lordswood and Capstone Luton and Wayfield Walderslade Chatham (32,300) ME5 Chatham Central Princess Park Locality 3 ME1 / ME2 / ME3 Strood (75,573) ME1 / ME2 Strood North Strood Rural Strood South Cuxton and Halling Peninsula Rochester (31,550) ME3 Rochester East Rochester West Rochester South and Horsted Locality Split Localites 1 and 2 are both classed as Urban. Locality 3 is split into Urban and rural areas. As such Loclaity 3 is split inot tow catagories as outlined below:. This is explained in the two [2] points below: I. URBAN – Wards excluding (Cuxton and Halling (Ward 2), Peninsula (Ward 9) and Strood Rural (Ward 18) II. RURAL – Wards including (Cuxton and Halling (Ward 2), Peninsula (Ward 9) and Strood Rural (Ward 18). A full and detailed Service Specification (Appendix 1) is attached to the competition documentation For Extra Care, Medway Council is seeking to appoint suitably experience Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered care provider(s) to delivery services at the following Extra Care schemes. i. Atlas Place – St. Mary's Island, Medway, ME4 3AN is a thirty-eight [38] unit scheme with twenty-two [22] shared ownership apartments on St Mary’s Island. ii. Bellerophon House - Doust Way, Rochester, Kent, ME1 1FG is a forty-one [41] unit scheme at Rochester Riverside iii. Montgomery Court - Choir Close, Wainscott, Rochester ME3 8FP is a sixty-two [62] unit scheme in Wainscott iv. Prospect Place – 1 Blake Avenue, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 1FX is a sixty [60] unit scheme at Gillingham Pier v. Rogallo Place – Pilot View, Medway, ME4 6FE is a thirty-eight [38] unit scheme with twenty-two [22] shared ownership apartments in Horsted, Rochester

DN441934

£44,000,000.00

£0.00

£0.00

N/A

Homecare, Extra Care, Supported, Accommodation

01/04/2020

31/03/2024

18/12/2019

Not set

Not provided

31/10/2022

36 months

1 month

37 months

12 with 0 taken

Medway Council

Framework

Yes

ITT