Social Care Tenders in Sheffield

The outreach service will deliver interventions to reduce harm around substance use and associated risky behaviours with a target audience of 16–25-year-olds. The aim of the outreach service is to reduce and / or prevent recreational/experimental use turning into problematic drug and alcohol use. The service will explore new opportunities to provide outreach within the city of Sheffield and will discuss this with commissioners in the new contract period. The service will be required to provide harm reduction advice and support, overdose prevention advice, and work closely with key partners including but not limited to, sexual health and mental health services. The service will provide a comprehensive referral and signposting function to ensure that substance use support is accessible to all individuals encountered during outreach and education initiatives. This includes a commitment to navigating both adult and youth-specific treatment systems, ensuring that referrals are handled with the necessary sensitivity and clinical relevance. By integrating these transition points into standard outreach procedures, the service will facilitate a seamless journey for service users from initial engagement through to specialist substance use intervention.

The primary objective of this commission is to improve long-term recovery outcomes for people in drug treatment by integrating targeted housing support into the wider recovery framework. This initiative stems from the 10-year Drug Strategy, which allocated £53m to address the significant housing instabilities often cited by individuals entering dependency services. By focusing on the delivery of stable housing, this project seeks to remove a primary barrier to successful treatment completion. Following the success of the HALT project, which commenced in 2021, this specification invites providers to bid to provide a Housing Support Service as part of the Home At Last Team (HALT) to support those with substance use issues into structured treatment and long term sustainable accommodation, which fits into our strategic objective of ‘Increasing Treatment Capacity.’ It will seek to reduce the number of rough sleepers with substance use issues who are not currently engaged in structured treatment, to prevent those within treatment who are at risk of homelessness due to their substance use from becoming homeless, and to offer support (professional and peer) to individuals who are within this cohort.