Provision of Community Navigators Service for Blackpool (UK Shared Prosperity Funding)

Descriptions

Blackpool Council is looking to appoint a lead organisation / lead organisation with sub partners who will be able to provide as a minimum the following activities/aims:-•The Community Navigators initiative will work to support people across the town who find themselves in circumstances where they fall through the gaps in services.•Accessing the range of services and support needed is challenging for many people and often involves being passed around the system until they find the right place. A team of community navigators would take referrals from VCFSE organisations, health, statutory services and individuals themselves.•The Council anticipates that the community navigators will be based within a VCFSE organisation (or combination of VCFSE partners) , as they are deemed best placed to link people with the services they need and will have a good overview of local services and any gaps that may exist.•The outcomes expected from this work are to provide as a minimum intensive support to up to 200 people in Blackpool who are furthest away from the labour market, this could be people who have long term health conditions and disabilities or those who have complex lives.•The specific outputs and outcomes to be provided are set out in Appendix A of the Tender documents with definitions provided in Appendix B. It should be noted that any one beneficiary “may” be recorded against a number of different outputs and outcomes depending on the support provided.