Enhanced Care Unit

***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>The service will offer an enhanced Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) environment and level of care. The clinical model will be trauma responsive, sensory adjusted to provide autism sensitive care and will be skilled to include diagnosis where disordered eating features are a risk factor.<br/><br/>Delivering an intensive level of care, through specialist care planning and risk assessment with a skilled MDT. The service aim is ensuring that young people are stepped down as soon as clinically appropriate from highly restrictive levels of care.<br/><br/>The service aims to provide a specialist inpatient option for young people in a clinical pathway of care for young people who might otherwise be referred to a Low Secure pathway of care due to a lack of suitable options. ECU will prevent unnecessary escalation by offering intensive, needs-led support in a less restrictive environment.<br/><br/>Further details regarding this requirement can be found in the service specification which is available to download from the Atamis portal.<br/><br/>This is a new service model for Children and Young People's Intensive Mental Health Services (CYPIMHS), as such, the successful Provider is expected to be fully operational, providing services from April 2026.<br/><br/>The Commissioner intends to hold a market engagement event via MS Teams on 18th September 2025 at 14:00 - 15:30, with follow up 30 minute 1:1 sessions being held on 19th September 2025 between 09:00 - 17:00. You will only be invited to a 1:1 session if you have attended the market engagement event, to ensure all attendees have access to the same information. Sessions will be scheduled on a first come first serve basis. Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome and search for project C384582. A link to the event can be accessed via the invitation located within the Documents area of the Atamis project.<br/><br/>Please ensure that you have registered your interest in attending the market engagement event by 17th September 2025 at 12 noon. Additional information: ***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome and search for project C384582. A link to the event can be accessed via the invitation located within the Documents area of the Atamis project.<br/><br/>Please ensure that you have registered your interest in attending the market engagement event by 17th September 2025 at 12 noon.<br/><br/>Please note that this notice does not bind either AGEM CSU or the Commissioner to any act, including but not limited to carrying out a procurement for the services described in this notice or in any accompanying documentation which may be made available to the market at this time. In the event that a procurement process is pursued following this notice, providers should note that it will be carried out under the requirements of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. Furthermore, the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023, save for those requirements detailed in regulation 28 of the Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025, do not apply.