Services - Project Development

Working together to develop winning bids for new services, innovative approaches to new project design and implementation

Bid development & implementation

We will work alongside a bidding team, to help with the development of a coherent model of care.  Our skills are clearly in relation to psychologically informed services in mental health or criminal justice, and partnership working.  We work with teams to ensure that bids are innovative, evidence based, and communicate a compelling and easy to understand psychological approach.

Jackie was chair of a consortium of mental health trusts, and lead bid writer, resulting in successful tenders for personality disordered offenders across two prisons and all of London.  She has won bids to work with the NSPCC on young people with sexually harmful behaviour.

Service user involvement

Achieving meaningful - rather than superficial - service user involvement in complex areas of mental health and offending can be a daunting task.  Policies need to take account of service user vulnerabilities and need, as well as risks to others and organisational reputation.

Jackie has led the team developing peer mentorships, and innovative social enterprise activity, in a community forum for high risk offenders with personality disorder. She has involved sex offenders in training, volunteer recruitment and peer support for specific services.

Anne was the Executive lead for the development of a Trustwide community service user led consultancy, highly commended by the Care Quality Commission.

Service review

We can draw on our experience across secure mental health, prisons, and the community,  to support organisations in reviewing their services.  Sometimes the aim will be to improve quality or productivity; sometimes the goal will be to reduce cost. All too often, all three issues need to be addressed.

We will work on site, with the senior management team, and the service to be reviewed.  We hold individual sessions, team discussion and workshops as required. We produce a written report as the final product.

Jackie has worked with secure hospital management teams to review the structure and activity of their psychology departments.  She has worked on a review of boundary violations in hospital, and conducts level 4 and 5 inquiries.

Current projects include:

Working with a third sector organisation to develop a model of care and good practice guide for a small group of women in high secure prison care.
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Working with a specialist learning disability charity to extend their expertise in providing innovative social care support to learning disabled individuals who are in secure hospital care.  The aim is to provide safe, effective and quality pathways back into the community.

Working with a Mutual company in the field of Criminal Justice, in order to develop a 'whole family approach' to working with domestic violence, with the aim of entering into Local Authority partnerships to deliver evidence based interventions.