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21 courses, mapped to the four competency domains and seven audience tracks.

Core

Foundation · 6h

Foundations: introduction to the SPLW role

Map the SPLW role onto the WHIS competency framework's four domains. What SPLWs do, who they work with, the 'what matters to you?' conversation, and where the role sits inside personalised care.

Intermediate · 3h

Reflective practice & CPD

Use the Portfolio of Evidence — reflection tool, observation sheet, case study template, feedback surveys — to drive your CPD.

Care planning

Foundation · 5h

Personalised care & support planning

How to co-produce a personalised care and support plan with someone, working with patient activation, health literacy, and behaviour change techniques.

Community

Intermediate · 4h

Developing partnerships

Working with the MDT, primary care colleagues, and community partners. Building strong working relationships with statutory and VCSE services.

Intermediate · 5h

Community development & VCSE

Asset-Based Community Development, mapping community assets, identifying gaps, supporting accessibility, and contributing to commissioning conversations.

Safe practice

Foundation · 4h

Safeguarding & safe practice

Statutory safeguarding obligations, capacity to consent, competence-based consent for minors, lone working, information governance, and emotional resilience.

Foundation · 3h

Keeping records & demonstrating impact

Accurate records, ONS4 wellbeing measures, satisfaction surveys, case studies, and how to evidence the impact of social prescribing.

Supervisor

Foundation · 4h

Supervising SPLWs — core curriculum

The three supervision modes (workplace, clinical, group), what each requires, and how to deliver each well.

Foundation · 2h

Workplace supervision

Day-to-day support, induction, integration into the team, safe practice within scope.

Intermediate · 3h

Clinical supervision

Monthly minimum. Reflective practice, learning needs analysis, professional development planning.

Advanced · 3h

Group supervision

Peer learning sets, small/large group facilitation, EDI, managing dysfunction.

Specialism

Advanced · 4h

Specialism: children & young people

Working with under-18s — competence-based consent, safeguarding, school and child & adolescent mental health interfaces, age-appropriate communication.

Advanced · 4h

Specialism: mental health

Low-level mental health needs in primary care, the boundary with specialist talking-therapy and secondary mental health services.

Advanced · 4h

Specialism: financial inclusion & advice

Cost of living, debt, benefits, energy advice, working with Citizens Advice and welfare rights.

Advanced · 4h

Specialism: refugees & asylum seekers

Inclusion health, trauma-informed practice, interpreters, health-system entitlement and accessible communication.

Advanced · 4h

Specialism: secondary care & hospital discharge

Working at the hospital interface — discharge teams, integrated care, follow-up, reducing readmissions.

Employer

Foundation · 3h

Employing SPLWs

Setting up the SPLW role: sample job description, induction, sustainable caseload, supervision arrangements, and wider integration.

MDT

Foundation · 2h

Embedding the SPLW in the MDT

First point of contact, GP supervisor, accessing records, MDT meeting etiquette.

Foundation · 1h

What does a social prescribing link worker do?

A short orientation for non-SPLWs — useful for primary care, hospitals, VCSE staff and members of the public.

Foundation · 1h

The personalised care team

How SPLWs work alongside health & wellbeing coaches and care co-ordinators.

Career

Foundation · 2h

Career pathways into and through SPLW

Entry routes into the SPLW role, apprenticeship and lived-experience pathways, progression to specialist, management or allied health professional roles.