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Oncology Leadership and Management Skills

Oncology Leadership and Management Skills
Online 5 CPD hours
Online Course, 5 CPD hours
Wed 9 Dec 2026 09:30-15:30

Sharing experiences and discovering different methods for best supporting your team 

This is your prefect opportunity to consolidate your ideas, delve into your personal leadership style and learn how best to utilise your skill set within your management role.

This event is only for Trusts within West Midlands Cancer Alliance

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5 hours CPD

By working through current challenges with proven techniques, you will be able to return to your workplace with a new frame of mind, plus, the tools to enable the team to be both engaged and productive. Key learning outcomes included:

  • Strategies to cope with stress
  • Improving the quality of your virtual assessments
  • Identifying compassion fatigue
  • Managing workplace pressures
  • Demonstrating your compassion and competence
  • Developing your clinical leadership skills
  • Enhancing the team’s communication skills

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With an enhanced emphasis on networking, interactive discussion and idea sharing, this forum will provide all the elements you need to deliver change by:

  • Evidenced based examples and scenarios: take a step back to reflect on how best to support your team
  • Interactive presentations: hone your skills with best practice examples and first-hand experiences
  • Closed room discussions: benchmark and engage with your fellow attendees
  • Agreed action plan: leave the course with the confidence to make changes

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:

Please click on the links to view full details and secure your place.

Learning & development

Oncology National Networking Forums are pleased to be featured as part of the ACCEND Framework

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 ACCEND 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
10:00
Introduction, instructions and leader’s opening remarks
Sam Toland, Lead Chemotherapy Nurse, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
10:10
Building your leadership style and enabling effective oncology team dynamics
  • What are the drivers and tensions in oncology?
  • What type of manager/leader do you prefer? Leadership in healthcare
  • Choosing a leadership style: self-assessment and common styles
  • How do you lead your team? Team dynamics
  • What makes a good team? How do good teams operate?
  • Teaming strategy and team building: practical tips
10:40
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
10:50
Interactive discussion: Explore your leadership style and team dynamic: what works well and when
11:10
Screen break
Enhancing communication skills
11:20
Improving the quality and safety of your virtual communication with oncology patients and their families
  • How to safely deliver your virtual oncology clinical assessment: skills and competency required
  • Honing your communication skills and overcome absence of non-verbal cues
  • Developing a compassionate approach to delivering bad news virtually
11:50
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
12:00
Interactive discussion: Work through scenarios to demonstrate your compassion, skills and competence
12:20
Lunch break
Strategies to cope with stress
1:00
Managing your workplace pressure and supporting your oncology colleagues with their stress
  • Identifying compassion fatigue versus burnout within your team
  • Supporting colleagues who feel unwell due to stress of working in oncology
  • Case study examples: implementing holistic approaches to make positive changes
1:30
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
1:40
Interactive discussion: Share your challenges and current good practice and discover what others are doing to support their team
2:00
Screen break
Compassionate leadership in your oncology service
2:10
Incorporating compassionate leadership skills in your management role
  • What is compassionate leadership? Understanding the role it plays in times of stress and negativity
  • Key steps to building trust with your colleagues
  • How to effectively equip your team with trust, resilience and self-care
2:40
Questions and answers with Samantha Toland
3:00
Interactive discussion: Group discussion, reflection and action points explored
  • What will you take away from today that you can implement in your role and wider team?
  • How will you make steps towards improving your leadership and management style?
3:20
Course leader’s closing remarks
3:30
Close of day

Meet your course 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 the participants benefitted first-hand from her extensive experience within oncology nursing.

Samantha Toland

Lead Chemotherapy Nurse
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Biography

Free to attend

This training conference is free to attend for Trusts within West Midlands Cancer Alliance.

Please contact Nichola Cadwallader with your enquiries. 

Additional learning opportunities available for Trust employees within the West Midlands Cancer Alliance include:

Please click on the links to view full details and secure your place.

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.

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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Expected attendees

This online meeting is ideal for and attended by leaders and managers working in oncology. 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

Past attendee feedback

Our focused online forums have received excellent feedback – but don’t take our word for it!

“It was brilliant, really informative and I’ve left feeling positive and motivated to take new ideas back to the team”
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
“Really useful information shared. It was nice to share with other colleges and learn from their experiences”
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
“Excellent opportunity for nurses to join and improve knowledge”
- The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
“I found it very friendly, and very informative. it was nice to talk to other areas, in small groups, before the presentation started, and learn a bit about how other areas’ processes are for triage and assessment of their patients”
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
“Lots of information to take on board and discuss in-house with my local team of ideas on how to triage and assess patients better and ensure pathways are correct”
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
“The entire session was very well presented and it will really help with my practice!”
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
“Informative, friendly and highly appropriate content. Really exciting day as it felt like networking and being present at a physical conference, so thank you for making it so warm and welcoming”
- Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
“It was an excellent conference with really interesting sessions. I felt that the virtual aspect went well with support being readily available and helpful”
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Course funding

The West Midlands Cancer Alliance has fully funded this course, enabling eligible healthcare professionals from the below provider Trusts only to access this training at no cost 

  •         Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
  •         George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
  •         Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
  •         South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
  •         The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
  •         The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  •         The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  •         The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
  •         The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
  •         University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
  •         University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
  •         University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
  •         Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
  •         Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
  •         Wye Valley NHS 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