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Choice and Control Peer Coaching Service

Our service is designed to work alongside clients to improve their quality of life by providing flexible coaching support.

Clients will be offered up to 10 hours of coaching sessions and these can be taken in a variety of ways in terms of timing and location. The Peer Coach will help clients to focus on what is important to them and how they want to improve their health and wellbeing. Being practitioners with lived experience of mental health and sometimes physical health issues, they share a real understanding of living with mental and physical health conditions.

18+

The Choice and Control Peer Coaching Service is specifically for two groups of people:

  1. People with both a long term physical health problem that they have to manage and a mental health condition and
  2. People who are listed with their GPs as having a Severe Mental Illness (namely bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder and other psychosis) who are at high risk of physical health issues
You are eligible for Choice and Control if you are:
  • Registered with an Islington GP or are a resident of Islington
  • You are over the age of 18 years
Our service helps users to link with relevant resources in the community, overcome internal and external barriers to achieving wellbeing goals and gain clarity in next steps to take to improve their lives.
 
The Peer Coaches have a great ability to help a person:
  • be heard
  • find hope
  • get connected to people, places and services
  • explore options to improve their quality of life
Becoming a Peer Coach
 
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Peer Coaches undergo a rigorous training and recruitment process that includes training in coaching and engagement skills as well as local services and processes. We have at least yearly recruitment drives and are well linked with other local peer working initiatives so can assist potential peer coaches to find their career path.
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Telephone: 020 3317 3500
In an emergency
C&I has moved the service we normally offer in emergency departments to our 24-hour Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service, at St Pancras Hospital. The service will see people in need of urgent care so that they do not have to go to a hospital emergency department unless they have an urgent medical need. Emergency departments are under unprecedented pressure due to COVID-19 – the illness caused by coronavirus. We are urging people in mental health crisis to telephone our 24/7 crisis line on 0800 917 3333 or contact their usual community mental health team. If service users attend the 24-hour Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service in person we will see you but we urge you to contact the crisis line in advance for advice to ensure you are only leaving home when absolutely necessary.

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Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
St Pancras Hospital
4 St Pancras Way
London NW1 0PE

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