Empower your workforce
Join Sam Toland, Lead Chemotherapy Nurse, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, for a specially tailored interactive online workshop. Designed for leaders and managers working in oncology, you will benefit from a perfect opportunity to share experiences and insights, explore innovative workforce models and enhance retention, resilience, MDT collaboration and team communication.
This event is exclusively for Trusts within West Midlands Cancer Alliance
Calling all Oncology Managers
5 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn
By working through current workforce challenges using proven techniques and shared best practice, you will return to your workplace with a fresh perspective and practical tools to support an engaged, resilient and productive oncology team. Key learning outcomes include:
- Clearly identifying roles and structures within your oncology service
- Using ACCEND as a framework to guide career development
- Supporting staff wellbeing and professional development
- Strengthening clinical supervision and communication
- Exploring career pathways in oncology
- Looking into new models for the workforce to maximise skills and efficiency
Convenient remote learning
Enhance your understanding with 5 CPD hours
Designed as an interactive and practical learning experience, this dedicated training day will equip you with the knowledge, tools and strategies to drive meaningful change:
- Connect with like-minded oncology leaders and managers from across the country, sharing challenges and solutions in a supportive environment
- Take part in interactive benchmarking discussions to explore current workforce challenges, team structures, retention initiatives and new models of care
- Ask your critical questions and gain practical guidance from an experienced oncology leader, with opportunities for live Q&A throughout the day
- Decide your plan of action to start implementing improvements immediately when you are back in practice
Exclusive opportunity
This event is free to attend for Trusts within West Midlands Cancer Alliance.
Further WMCA Training
Additional learning opportunities available for Trust employees within the West Midlands Cancer Alliance include:
- Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, Monday 29th June 2026
- Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, Wednesday 9th September 2026
- Compassionate and Supportive Leadership Skills, Wednesday 30th September 2026
Please click on the links to view full details and secure your place.
Learning & development
Oncology National Networking Forums are pleased to be featured on the ACCEND Greater Manchester ePortfolio
The ePortfolio platform is available via the Greater Manchester Cancer Academy and supports professional development in cancer care.
This forum and all of our events are mapped to the ACCEND Framework and can be recorded in the Greater Mancester ePortfolio to help you evidence your learning, reflections and competencies.
To find out more, click on the ACCEND tab.
| 9:30 |
Join, tech support and opportunity to network in breakout rooms
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| 10:00 |
Introduction, instructions and leader’s opening remarks
Sam Toland, Lead Chemotherapy Nurse, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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| Key workforce challenges | |
| 10:10 |
Interactive discussion: Building a resilient oncology workforce
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| Current roles and their functions | |
| 10:30 |
Driving efficiency in your oncology service with clear roles and structures
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| 11:00 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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| 11:10 |
Interactive discussion: Streamlining oncology care through defined roles and responsibilities
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| 11:30 |
Screen break
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| Initiatives to support workforce retention | |
| 11:40 |
Using ACCEND as a framework to guide career development and support retention
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| 12:10 |
Supporting staff wellbeing and professional development
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| 12:40 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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| 12:50 |
Lunch break
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| 1:20 |
Strengthening clinical supervision and communication to enhance team coordination and patient safety
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| 1:50 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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| 2:00 |
Interactive discussion: Enhancing workforce development and retention
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| Exploring career pathways in oncology | |
| 2:20 |
Encouraging growth: understanding roles, progression and professional development
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| 2:50 |
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
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| 3:00 |
Interactive discussion: Building effective teams and supporting career development
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| 3:20 |
Screen break
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| New models for the workforce | |
| 3:30 |
Maximising skills and streamlining roles to enhance patient care
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| 4:00 |
Questions and answers with Sam Toland
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| Build an action plan | |
| 4:10 |
Interactive discussion: Group discussion, reflection and action points explored
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| 4:30 |
Close of day
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Expert workshop leader
Samantha Toland is an experienced speaker and lecturer who has previously been described by attendees as ‘especially engaging’ and ‘very inspiring’. At this interactive course is a great opportunity for you to benefit first-hand from her extensive experience within oncology nursing.
Samantha Toland
Lead Chemotherapy Nurse
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Free to attend
This training conference is free to attend for Trusts within West Midlands Cancer Alliance.
Please contact Nichola Cadwallader with your enquiries.
Further free, online training
Additional learning opportunities available for Trust employees within the West Midlands Cancer Alliance include:
- Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, Monday 29th June 2026
- Enhance your Oncology Nurse-led Telephone Triage Assessment, Wednesday 9th September 2026
- Compassionate and Supportive Leadership Skills, Wednesday 30th September 2026
Please click on the links to view full details and secure your place.
How this online forum works
Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online training taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the course.
If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.
Practice sessions are available. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.
On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.
Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.
Terms and conditions
Registration
This event is free to attend. If you find you are unable to attend, we ask you to cancel your place in writing, at least 48 hours before the event takes place. This will allow someone else to take your place.
Modify registration
To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk.
Substitutions
Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.
Conference changes
It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme.
Certificate of attendance
A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every attendee, as a record of continuing professional training and development.
Privacy notice
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Who should attend?
This online meeting is ideal for and attended by leaders and managers working across the oncology service. This includes but is not limited to:
- Clinical Nurse Specialists, Nurse Consultants and Advanced Clinical Practitioners
- Sisters and Matrons
- Team Leads and Managers
- Clinical Leads and Consultants
Audience insight
This training day is the latest in a series of successful Oncology and Leadership Forums which have all received excellent feedback – but don’t take our word for it!
Course funding
The West Midlands Cancer Alliance fully funded this course, enabling eligible healthcare professionals from the below provider Trusts only to access this training at no cost.
- University Hospitals Birmingham Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Birmingham Women's & Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
- George Eliot Hospital Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- Wye Valley NHS Trust Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals
- Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt
- University Hospital North Midlands
- Royal Wolverhampton Trust
- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
- Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
- The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
Our education commitment
The West Midlands Cancer Alliance is committed to developing a skilled, confident and compassionate cancer workforce equipped to meet the needs of our diverse population, now and in the future. We inspire excellence in cancer education, build capability across the whole cancer pathway, and champion inclusive learning for every role. By sharing knowledge and developing future leaders, we strengthen our workforce and improve outcomes for people affected by cancer.
Implementing the ACCEND framework
Telephone triage training builds confident assessment, decision making and communication skills whilst the expanding capacity within SACT services supports the development of technical competence, workload management and progression across key capability domains. Compassionate and supportive leadership training strengthens reflective practice and people centred leadership behaviours, enabling staff to evidence professional values and development within the ePortfolio. All of the WMCA commissioned training aligns to the Greater Manchester ePortfolio and ACCEND framework for development.
Partnering for impact
Our partnership with SBK Healthcare ensures access to high impact, practice focused education that strengthens services now and prepares our teams for the future of personalised, digital cancer care.
About the ACCEND Framework
The ACCEND Framework is designed to enhance cancer care by providing a structured approach to education and professional development for healthcare professionals.
- It defines the essential Cancer Capabilities in Practice (CiPs) and offers a tailored educational structure to support progression at every stage of a cancer care career.
- Launched in January 2023, the framework aims to transform career pathways and improve training and development opportunities across the cancer workforce.
- It provides access to the education and training needed to meet role-specific competencies and includes dedicated resources for nurses, allied health professionals and those in cancer-related support roles.
- The ACCEND Framework delivers a nationally agreed career and education structure underpinned by clearly defined capabilities in practice.
Map your learning
All Oncology National Networking Forum courses listed on the ACCEND Greater Manchester ePortfolio are fully aligned with the ACCEND Framework.
You can easily log your attendance and map your learning to the Cancer Capabilities in Practice (CiPs) through the ACCEND Greater Manchester ePortfolio.
To do this:
- Register and log in to the Greater Manchester ePortfolio
- Click ‘Add Entry’
- Select 'Choose an item from the library'
- Change the provider to Oncology National Networking Forums
- Choose the relevant event you have attended (or plan to attend)
This tool offers a central space to track your professional development, reflections and achievements - supporting your ongoing career in cancer care.
Click here to access the Greater Manchester ePortfolio
