Recovery orientated substance misuse treatment services.

Descriptions

This contract will bring together services which are currently provided by a number of providers. It will include all elements of a fully integrated substance misuse treatment system including pharmacological interventions, psychosocial interventions and criminal justice interventions with suitable programmes leading to recovery.The successful provider will be required to deliver a recovery focused service for drug and alcohol users, including all classifications of drugs, those with poly-substance misuse and those using new psychoactive substances (legal highs) as well as those dependent on prescription and over the counter medicines. The integrated service will be provided to substance misusers with a range of complexities such as poly-drug use, mental health problems, pregnancy and involvement with criminal activity.The service is predominately provided to those over the age of eighteen. Service users will be resident within, or are registered with a General Practitioner within the Borough of Wirral.The successful provider must ensure equality of access for all substance and alcohol users and must be able to deliver an effective recovery focused drug and alcohol misuse treatment system to enable service users to access appropriate and timely treatment resulting in successful treatment completion. They will be required to provide evidenced based treatment services to address the harms of drugs and alcohol on substance misusers and the impact this has on the local community, along with an effective after-care and support system.The key essential elements of this service are:— Assessment, care planning, co-ordination, pathways and review— Harm reduction, specialist needle exchange and prevention of drug related deaths, injury and overdose— Psychosocial interventions— Pharmacological interventions and delivery of a shared care system— Interventions to reduce crime, re-offending and anti-social behaviour— Freedom from dependence on drugs and alcohol— Access to residential detoxification, treatment and after-care— Focus on children and families, carers and safeguarding— Recovery and after-care— Effective user and carer involvement— Access to mutual aid and peer support— Support to access employment, training, education and volunteering— Support to access suitable accommodation— Interventions aimed at improving mental and physical health and well-being.