Your standing, made visible
Business advisers carry deep, practical experience, but it has often lived only on a CV. The NBSA Standard turns that experience into a recognised national benchmark, and your verified profile travels with you to every commissioner who checks it.
Business advising is one of the strangest careers in professional services. Real consequence, yet professional security that resets to a CV every time a programme’s funding ends. The NBSA Framework fixes that: regulated qualifications, professional accreditation, and a place on the national register that travels with you, between contracts and employers, for good.
Regulated qualification
The updated Level 5 Certificate, with new additional finance and project management specialist badges.
Accreditation
Recognition of the craft beyond the syllabus, renewed through CPD.
A place on the register
A unique ID and digital credentials anyone can verify.
Standing that travels
Your professional identity stops resetting when programmes end.
Years in the job? You don’t start from scratch.
Recognition of Prior Learning is a core route in. Your track record becomes your evidence, through a portfolio, not a classroom.
For employers: professionalise a whole team at no extra cost
The qualification can be achieved through a levy-funded apprenticeship route, delivered with ALM, the Level 5 embedded in the Level 4 Junior Management Consultant standard. One funded programme, three outcomes: the apprenticeship, the qualification, and accreditation with register entry.