Home Group - Employee Assistance and Occupational Health Programme

Home Group Limited (Home Group) is seeking to appoint an appropriate supplier to provide occupational health and employee support services to the organisation on a national basis. This Invitation to Tender (ITT) has been produced by Home Group to enable a single organisation to be selected for the provision of services in the following areas: Occupational Health Services ?

Clinical Advisory Services ? Post Offer Employment Health Questionnaire Screening Services ?

The provision of an Off Site Management Referral Facility Employee Support Services ? Telephone Counselling ?

Stress/anxiety management advice ? Legal Information ?

Employment Law Advice ? Debt Counselling ?

Management Support and Consultancy ? Management Referrals ?

Professional Assessment ? Face-to-Face Counselling ?

Childcare & Eldercare Information ? Personal Assistant ?

Critical Incident Stress Management ? Training Services ?

Health & Wellbeing Information and Support Services Additional information: It is Home Group's preference that all prospective bidders utilise our e- tendering portal to download and submit all documentation within the tender. This portal can be found at: www.housingprocurement.com.

Instructions and help are available from the homepage. Once interest has been registered, Home Group is able to issue the ITT documents to prospective bidders accordingly.

The completed documents must then be submitted back to the portal; instructions included within the ITT document detailing how to achieve this. Queries from bidders can also be raised within the portal by utilising the Q & A facility where they will be answered, allowing total transparency to all other participating bidders.

Home Group is acting as a central purchasing body on behalf of itself and potentially a range of contracting authorities who will be able to access this framework. Eligible bodies include: Home Group and any existing or future subsidiary companies (see www.homegroup.org.uk for more information on the Group); Other Registered Providers in England (providers registered with the Homes and Communities Agency, see www.homesandcommunities.co.uk) and Social Landlords in Scotland (providers registered with the Scottish Housing Regulator, see www.scottishhousingregulator.gov.uk); Charitable Organisations registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (see www.charitycommission.gov.uk ) or the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (see www.oscr.org.uk) whose charitable purposes include, but not are limited to, the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health or saving of lives; the advancement of citizenship or community development; the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage; and, any other purposes currently recognised as charitable and any new charitable purposes which are similar to another charitable purpose; and Social Enterprises involved in the provision of housing related services/activities or whose activities are similar to those listed above in respect of charitable organisations. Home Group is a national company with employees based across the UK.