Social Prescribing Champions are vital to our work. Get involved today and make a difference.
As a Social Prescribing Champion you will:
- Raise awareness and profile of social prescribing within your workplace, locality, region, and/or nation
- Connect with social prescribing link workers to co-design solutions to local challenges
- Support consistency of messaging and latest evidence on social prescribing
- Connect with multidisciplinary team members
- Support primary and secondary care collaboration for social prescribing
Who can be a Social Prescribing Champion?
The scheme is open to all NHS clinical and non-clinical staff, regardless of profession, seniority or year of training, as well as students in England. This includes:
- Medical and nursing staff
- Multidisciplinary team members
- Allied healthcare professionals
- Link workers
- Non-clinical roles
- Students
- VCSE staff funded or commissioned by the NHS
Resources and support for Champions
- Informational Materials: This includes infographics, communication materials, evidence summaries, and videos to provide a comprehensive understanding of the initiative.
- Identification Kit: A social prescribing pin badge and lanyard to help Champions identify themselves and raise awareness about the initiative.
- Priority Access: Champions will receive early access to crucial information such as best practices and the most recent guidance documents.
- Collaborative Opportunities: Champions will have the chance to co-design emerging strategy documents, providing hands-on input.
- Communication Toolkit: Guidance for social media and effective communication strategies to amplify the message of social prescribing.
- Exclusive Access to Expertise: Champions will have the privilege to access the National Academy for Social Prescribing's (NASPs) internal expertise, webinars, newsletters, and the community of practice, facilitating a culture of shared knowledge and continuous learning.
Expected Outcomes for Appointed Champions
Being part of this scheme will benefit you, your colleagues and your patients.
Membership is intended not to be onerous, but there are some expectations.
- Champions commit to a set of core values (outlined in full below)
- Providing feedback to us by completing a simple 5 minute yearly online survey
- Optional involvement in webinars, podcasts, case study development and other social media opportunities provided by NASP and NHS England.
Core values
Core values held by Social Prescribing Champions.
A commitment to:
- Ongoing learning
- Sharing best practice
- Providing personalised care
- Reflecting on own practice and the practice of others
- Collaboration and transparency
- Being respectful of others
- Building inter- and multi-disciplinary working relationships
How do I become a Social Prescribing Champion?
Social Prescribing Champions are identified through a structured nomination process. Both external nominations (from colleagues, organisations, or friends) and self-nominations are accepted.
With nominations on a continuous, rolling basis, without any set deadlines.
Step one: Nomination form
Complete the nomination form on behalf of yourself or a colleague to begin the process of becoming a Champion
Step two: Monthly review
Our team will undertake a review of all applications on a monthly basis
Step three: Communication of outcome
You will be contacted with the outcome of your nomination via email
Step four: Champion induction
Successful nominees, now recognised as Champions, will be sent a lanyard and pin badge as a token of our appreciation and a symbol of your role and inducted onto the programme by our team
We look forward to hearing from you.
For further questions or any additional detail please get in touch directly with us at [email protected]
Find out more about the background of the Champions scheme and read the evaluation for the 2022 - 2023 programme.
