About us
Your community mental health service in Kensington and Chelsea, Queen’s Park and Paddington.
Community Living Well brings together a range of health care professionals who have specialist skills in working with people who have mental health needs. This community mental health service aims to deliver excellent integrated, recovery focused and evidence-based health and social care.
Community Living Well offers a different kind of mental health support. It makes it easy for you, and anyone who cares for you, to access a wide range of clinical and wellbeing services.
The services on offer include:
- clinical services, such as NHS Talking Therapies
- wellbeing services, such as peer support groups and practical support with employment, debt, housing and benefits issues
- Community Mental Health Hubs, giving you access to specialist mental health support.
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Our Ethos and Values
People said that they wanted to create a community based service which is proactive, vigilant and is based on hope, empowerment and recovery. The Community Living Well ethos and values through which we hope to achieve this include:
- To continue to have co-production as our way of working
- Provide a service which gives people a sense of value and worth
- People are seen as a person not as a ‘service user’
- Focusing on people’s strengths, building up their confidence
- Service delivery based on equal and reciprocal relationships
- Working with people to understand what recovery means to each individual person.
Community Living Well partners
Community Living Well is a pioneering service that brings together a range of clinical and wellbeing services to provide coordinated access to mental, physical care and social wellbeing support. These services are provided by a partnership between NHS and Voluntary Sector organisations. The service is commissioned by NHS CNWL which coordinates the partnership. The Community Living Well partners are:
St Mary Abbots Rehabilitation and Training (SMART)
SMART provides the Navigator and Employment services for Community Living Well. SMART is a charity that promotes mental health through purposeful activity. They offer a range of supported recovery, work and training opportunities in a friendly and enabling environment. People build both practical and personal skills, gaining experience and confidence. Working one-to-one with individuals they help them people find work and training outside SMART and reconnect with their community through a programme of social events and activities. SMART works closely with the providers of statutory services to develop a more holistic approach to supporting people with mental health needs.
Kensington and Chelsea Mind delivers Peer Support for Community Living Well. Mind works to improve the lives of people suffering from mental health problems. We are here to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for advice and support. Established in 1974, Kensington and Chelsea Mind has nearly 50 years experience of developing and providing innovative mental health services for people living in Kensington and Chelsea. Locally, Mind offers information, support and training services to support the recovery, growth and wellbeing of people who are experiencing mental health problems to enable them to live full and independent lives.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)
CNWL is the provider for both Talking Therapies (IAPT) and the Community Mental Health Hub teams within Community Living Well. CNWL is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. They provide a wide range of services for people with a variety of health needs. In broad terms, these include common physical health problems, long term conditions, mental health, learning disabilities, eating disorders, addictions and sexual health. CNWL provides support for people through every stage of life.
