Award Winning Professional body for social prescribing link workers
Membership
Our membership structure is designed for flexibility, catering to the evolving needs of professionals at every stage of their journey, fostering career planning, development, and progression while addressing practitioner concerns and bridging gaps. This approach not only provides value to employers but also supports recruitment and retention, ensuring mutual benefit for both organisations and individual practitioners. Please download the guide to use of our membership logo, certificate and affiliations
See our membership brochure here.
Employer Benefits
â–Ş Attract and retain staff, include membership of NALW in your offer
â–Ş Make your staff feel valued and enhance their professional status and career
â–Ş Access training, best practice resources, briefing and guidance
â–Ş Provide Career development
â–Ş Recognition: Our Link Worker Day awards are exclusive to members and you distinguish yourself with our member logo
â–Ş Showcase opportunities and influencing opportunities
â–Ş Save money, time and efforts
â–Ş Reduce risks and mistakes.
We are your one-stop shop!
Individual Benefits
Enhance professional status and identity
Stand out from the crowd with post-nominal letters membership certificate, and logo
Gain access to CPD and development opportunities
Opportunity for career progression, recognition and accreditation
Opportunity to lead, influence, win awards and enhance career
Access to guidance, insights, briefings, and updates
Free training with certificates
Access peer support and be part of your community
We are your professional home!
Eligibility criteria
Associate Membership
- UK Associate Membership Criteria: You can be an aspiring social prescribing link worker, care navigator, health and wellbeing coach, community connector, care coordinator, or peer support worker who works closely with social prescribing link workers for all or part of your work.
- International Associate Membership Criteria: Same as UK associate membership, but you must be practising outside the UK.
- Corporate associate membership: you employ associates or you are sponsoring an employer
Professional Membership
- UK Professional membership Criteria: This category is for anyone practising as a social prescribing link worker in a full or part-time capacity.
- International Professional Membership Criteria: Same as professional membership, but you must be practising outside the UK.
- Corporate professional membership: you employ Social Prescribing Link Workers in a part time or full-time paid capacity or you are sponsoring an employer
- NB: Associates are not eligible for this membership. Individual manager membership is not allowed; it must be part of an employer membership for SPLWs
Accredited Membership
- Meet accreditation requirements
- NB: An individual application is to be summited for assessment from a practising SPLW
Membership Packages
Associate Membership
- ANALW post-nominal and use of associate member logo and certficate
- Access to any statutory courses or other courses that apply to all membership categories
- Access to Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum courses with certficate
- Access to relevant events that apply to all membership categories
- Access to news update
Professional Membership ÂŁ150/yr/person
- MNALW post nominal (Social Prescribing Link Worker)
- Use of professional member logo (Employer inclusive), Professional member certificate is issued to individual SPLW.
- Voting rights
- Access to members directory
- Access to exclusive knowledge & resources library
- Access to (Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum level courses) & Peer Leadership courses with certificates). Accredited qualification courses are not included.
- Access to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses and events
- Access to CPD e-portfolio functionality
- Access to peer networking & mentoring events
- Access to regional or national branches
- Access to free or discounted events
- Influencing, speaking & spotlight opportunities
- Access to Special Interest Groups (SIG)
- Access to updates, briefing, guidance and news
ÂŁ750/yr Five Persons
ÂŁ1050/yr Seven Persons
ÂŁ1500/yr Ten Persons
Accredited Social Prescribing Link Worker Membership
Accredited Supervisor Membership
What Members Say
We are your single point of access that saves you from wasting time, reduce risk and burdens to link working.