Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Buckinghamshire Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Barnardo's
- Value
- £678,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Health & social care · Guidance services (CPV 85312310)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 029456-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 May 2025
- Published3 Jun 2025Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
Buckinghamshire Council's Public Health team have commissioneda Women's Community Health Worker Service on a pilot basis for 3 years only. The aim of the Service is to improve the health and well-being outcomes of women (including women from key ethnic groups) living within the most deprived areas of Aylesbury and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire before, during and after their pregnancies. This will be achieved through recruiting and training five whole time equivalent Women’s Community Health Workers to provide a range of targeted one-to-one, group and community-based activities that meet the needs of this population. Community health workers are defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as: “Providers who live in the community they serve and receive lower levels of formal education and training than professional health care workers such as nurses and doctors. This human resource group has enormous potential to extend services to vulnerable populations, such as communities living…
About the supplier
Barnardo's: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00061625).