Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13c03-f724-71c0-b181-5d0dd7ab0057/invitation-to-tender-for-rochdale-councils-school-nursing-service-r450

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# Invitation to Tender for Rochdale Council's School Nursing Service (R450)

[Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council](https://tendernation.io/buyers/rochdale-metropolitan-borough-council)

Estimated value

£1,100,000

Published

30 Sept 2015

Deadline

Closed

30 Oct 2015

## Who can bid

- Open procedure

    Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage.

## About this tender

This is an Invitation to Tender for Rochdale Council's School Nursing Service. Rochdale Borough Council is looking for a dynamic and innovative provider to deliver evidence based interventions for the school nursing service within the borough. School nursing is a universal public health service for children and young people of school age. The aim of the service is to ensure children, young people and their families have access to a core programme of preventative health care, with additional care based on need. Qualified school nurses are registered nurses who have completed a post registration graduate programme, and are registered as specialist community public health nurses (SCPHN). The service will: · Take the lead in developing effective partnerships and acting as an advocate to deliver change to support improvements in health and wellbeing of school-age children and young people. · Lead, co-ordinate and deliver public health interventions. · Ensure children have a smooth transition into school and throughout all early transition phases in life, building on the early years support to continue to lay down the foundations for healthy lifestyles which will prepare them for adulthood and to ensure they are ready to learn. · Work in partnership with local communities to build community capacity, demonstrating added value, utilising asset-based approaches, best use of resources and outcomes. · Work in partnership with other professionals and primary care including for example, school leaders, teachers and youth services to support children and young people to become healthy decision-makers in lifestyle choices, particularly in relation to: physical activity, diet, healthy eating, oral health, emotional wellbeing, smoking, sexual health and substance misuse. · Ensure care and support helps to keep children and young people healthy and safe within their community, working through the local safeguarding pathway to provide seamless, high quality, accessible and comprehensive service, promoting social inclusion and equality and respecting diversity. · Work in partnership with primary and secondary care colleagues to support children and young people with long term conditions or complex needs and facilitate appropriate management of health conditions to ensure hospital admissions are kept to a minimum. An appropriate level of service should be maintained throughout the year, including during school holidays. Services need to be responsive and flexible and should use technology and innovation to ensure that they reach children and young people. The service contract is from 1st April 2016 until 31st March 2017 with an option to extend annually until 31st Mar..(view full details to see more)

Additional information: Tender advertised in OJEU as an Open tender. Providers required to register an interest in the following tender 9ZYC-Y69DU1: Invitation to Tender for Rochdale Council's School Nursing Service (R450) via the Chest ([the-chest.org](https://www.the-chest.org/)) Once an expression of interest has been received you can download the documentation which needs to be submitted by 30th October, at 16:00 hrs.. Any late tenders will not be accepted.

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## CPV classification

Health services

Source

Contracts Finder (UK)

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