Track · specialist-splw
Specialist SPLWs
The framework recognises emerging specialisms. Specialist still need the four core competencies, plus appropriate skills, experience or qualifications for their population.
Suggested learning path
- 1
Specialism: children & young people
Working with under-18s — competence-based consent, safeguarding, school and child & adolescent mental health interfaces, age-appropriate communication.
Advanced · 4h · 1 modules
- 2
Specialism: mental health
Low-level mental health needs in primary care, the boundary with specialist talking-therapy and secondary mental health services.
Advanced · 4h · 1 modules
- 3
Specialism: financial inclusion & advice
Cost of living, debt, benefits, energy advice, working with Citizens Advice and welfare rights.
Advanced · 4h · 1 modules
- 4
Specialism: refugees & asylum seekers
Inclusion health, trauma-informed practice, interpreters, health-system entitlement and accessible communication.
Advanced · 4h · 1 modules
- 5
Specialism: secondary care & hospital discharge
Working at the hospital interface — discharge teams, integrated care, follow-up, reducing readmissions.
Advanced · 4h · 1 modules
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- Developing partnerships · Intermediate
- Community development & VCSE · Intermediate
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- Reflective practice & CPD · Intermediate