Tendering Opportunities
Psychology Services
West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership are seeking to extend and develop new projects with a psychology services partner.
To ensure continuity and resilience, we are seeking services from a team of psychologists rather than independent practitioners or a consortium approach which would provide the same assurance.
The provider(s) will work with WM VRP to agree a delivery plan for 11 months (up to the end of March 2027), which will include the following activity:
- Delivering consultations, case formulations, clinical supervision and incident response.
- Delivering psychological advice, formulation and guidance to inform service development and intervention planning and evaluation.
- Developing psychologically informed toolkits, resources and practitioner guidance to support individuals and partnerships responsible for preventing and reducing violence across the region.
- Delivering workforce development training to embed evidence-based, psychologically informed best practice across the children and young people’s workforce.
- Delivering specialist evidence-based, formulation driven psychological interventions, as required to meet the needs of new projects.
- Having the capacity to deliver NICE compliant, trauma-informed neurodevelopmental psychological assessments.
- Where required, physically embedding a psychologist in teams delivering interventions to high risk children and young people.
Please refer to full specification and guidance documents below.
CLICK HERE: Quarterly-Financial-Template-OPCC-Psychology-Services-2026 CLICK HERE: Draft-Contract-Purchase-of-Services-Standard-Terms-and-Conditions CLICK HERE: Safeguarding-and-Incident-Reporting-Process-Updated-Feb-2026 CLICK HERE: Service-Specification CLICK HERE FOR: APPLICATION FORM AND GUIDANCE
Timescales:
Opening – W/C 23rd February 2026
Deadline for Clarification Questions [Please submit clarification questions to [email protected] responses will be sent directly to those asking the question, and will be published on the OPCC website alongside the advert] – 10th March 2026
Closing date for receipt of Quotations to [email protected] Proposals received after the deadline stated or not properly completed will be disregarded. – 2nd April 2026 17:00
Award Contract – W/C 20th April 2026
Contract Commencement Date – Friday 1st May 2026
The VRP is committed to working effectively with partner organisations to deliver services that reduce and prevent violence. Providers delivering services do an outstanding job in supporting those in need and addressing risk and harm but are often themselves unsupported.
We have developed a set of core principles and ways of working which outline what an effective service seeking to reduce and prevent violence should look like. This is based on the evidence base, and on the research and delivery experience built up over the first 2 years of the VRP’s work. We don’t have all the answers and we don’t expect you to either. This document sets out our commitment to effective co-production of local services.
These core principles are not intended to be a checklist. Instead they outline our expectations for those providers working with us to protect young people.
The VRP is here to help. We deliver/can facilitate access to a range of training offers and CPD opportunities for frontline practitioners including:
- Trauma informed training
- Anti-racist training
- Awareness and identification of exploitation
- Mentors in Violence Prevention,
- Understanding Inequalities
- Understanding the Public Health approach to violence
If you are interested in learning more about these CPD opportunities, please email the VRP directly at [email protected]
