Closed
Open Tender Market - Trauma Counselling for victims of sexual assault
Tender ID: 577198
Tender Details
Organisation:
Tender #:
RFx_1084
Status:
Closed
Publish Date:
23 January 2025
Closing Date:
24 March 2025
Tender Description
The purpose of providing specialised sexual assault counselling is to reduce the harm, deliver psychoeducation and provide a safe confidential space for the victims to heard. Trauma counsellors are to ensure they report any sexual allegations against staff immediately to ensure the victim is safe.
The counselling is to be provided within a timely manner to victims in custody and the community for a period of up to an hour.
The locations of the correctional centres are:
• Dillwynia
• Silverwater Women’s
• Mid North Coast
• Clarence Correctional Centre
• Broken Hill
• Wellington Correctional Centre
The victims will receive up to 20 sessions of counselling, however, can be provided with further sessions in the view of the specialist and approved by the contract manager.
The counsellors will be subject to applying for authorisation to enter the Correctional centres which ensures a police check and working with children check. A security awareness course is to be conducted prior to approval and orientation be supplied for the counsellors.
Scope
In 2023 Special Commission Inquiry was heard after the former Correctional Officer Wayne Astill was convicted of sexually assaulting female offenders at Dillwynia Correctional Centre.
Recommendation 21 ensures victims have access to specialised sexual assault counselling to the victims of Astill and other female victims of sexual assault by CSNSW staff.
This scope of service requirement includes the following:
• Face to face, phone and audio visual counselling across metropolitan and regional NSW
• Provision of a secure platform to manage confidential data
• Reporting, trend analysis and program evaluation
• Provision of translator services
The Service Provider must, and in the case of a Service Provider Organisation, the Service Provider Organisation must ensure that the Panel Member and any other Personnel maintains full current registration with the relevant National Health Practitioner Board or registration or membership with a relevant professional organisation (such as the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Corrective Services are inviting suppliers who can meet the above requirement and have experience with trauma counselling to victims in custody or on community sentences including those exposed to high-risk and trauma situations.
Location
New South Wales
:
Central West
:
Far North Coast
:
Far West
:
Hunter
:
Illawarra
:
Mid North Coast
:
Murray
:
New England
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Orana
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Riverina
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Southern Highlands
:
Sydney
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