Next steps

Engagement and consultation

Our Market Position Statement is intended to promote a dialogue between the Council and providers. We have undertaken consultation activities with providers to gather views on our Market Position Statement. Feedback on the draft version was shared by Providers through a survey and focus group. The two main areas of feedback were financial planning shared with providers to support their future service delivery sustainability and the need for partnership working between health, social care and the marketplace providers to deliver the aspirations and meet the challenges of this market position statement.

Partnership working

We are encouraging organisations to contact us to discuss how the Council can work with you, especially if the following apply:

• Partners who are interested in developing or re-developing nursing care homes (especially dementia nursing care homes). Please note, all procurement opportunities will be placed through Proactis (the Council’s procurement system) and advertised through Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder.

• Nursing care home partners who would be looking to increase local capacity especially where supply is more limited.

• Nursing care home partners who would be interested in working collaboratively to improve career pathways and opportunities for nursing staff (for example, creating a pool of nursing staff to operate more cost effectively across a number of organisations).

• Care home partners who are able to support people with complex needs and joint funded placements with the NHS that may require specialist knowledge or equipment (e.g. bariatrics).

• Care homes who want to work with the Council and its partners to support people with complex needs and reduce the ongoing need for one-to-one support and intensive supervision and support.

• Care homes interested in developing services to support young adults transitioning from children’s services, including those from the age of 16.

• Care home partners or agencies wishing to upskill their workforce to support better quality or more specialist care provision.

• Care homes keen to innovate (e.g., utilise more assistive technology and technology-enabled care, diversify their provision, diversify delivery of the traditional nursing home delivery model

• Care homes keen to seek further support on improving how they run their business and or how they meet expected quality standards and use this support to make sustainable improvements.

• Care providers who are keen to ensure there is a clear focus on the mental health recovery model, focussing on working with the individual person to identify their strengths and build resilience.

• Care providers who want to explore opportunities of reducing the cost of care and support through cost improvement programmes (CIP) to reflect the pressures of CIP on statutory service delivery