Unemployed/unpaid membership

Make your next career move with the BASW job’s board

You can find all you need under one roof with access to new opportunities and find your next position with the job’s board.

Access career advice and benefit from one-to-one coaching

Enjoy free and confidential one-to-one peer coaching from a social worker from The Social Work Professional Support Services.

Set career goals with a coach, build your confidence and receive signposting to helpful resources to help find your next role in social work.

• Training and CPD. 

Develop your knowledge and skills and carve out your career path with free and discounted CPD. 

• Build your skills and carve out your career steps through our professional development courses.  

Enjoy discounted rates to specialised event programmes, training and events. Early-career social workers and newly qualified social workers enjoy very low rates for all our events, programmes and meetings.  We run a number of courses and events including the rolling BASW NQSW CPD programme tailored to support you post qualification, delivered by accredited training partners and specialised events to support direct social work practice and skills development. 

• Learn about the latest social work practice developed by and for social workers. 
• Supporting your re-registration with your regulator, learn about the latest social work practice through online articles and journals.
• Log your CPD from a range of free or discounted training, online resources and events.

Plus members benefit from a discounted rate for our annual BASW social work conferences across the UK, led by the voice of social work, practice leaders, people who use services, policy makers and academics. 

• Download the time-effective resources you need, all under one roof.  

There’s a lot to think about during your early career but BASW can support and signpost you to resources to help in your day-to-day work.  Benefit from the weekly email which highlights key updates in the sector and keeps you feeling informed. 

• Social Work Conferences.  

Discounted rates for BASW social work conferences across the UK, led by the voice of social work, practice leaders, people who use services, policy makers and academics. 

Run off cover is important for social workers who remain legally liable for their work for six years after it is completed. This means you would need to continue your BASW membership to benefit from this although you would change from a working category to a non-working category.

'Run off' insurance is professional indemnity insurance which covers historic liabilities. In relation to professional indemnity insurance, any work carried out in the past will be insured against future legal action, providing the work was completed within the coverage dates and your membership is unbroken and is still active.