Oncology Leadership and Management Skills, June 2025

Oncology Leadership and Management Skills, June 2025
Online Course, 5 CPD hours
Thu 5 Jun 2025

Fellow oncology team leads and managers from across the country came together at this online course to share experiences and discover different methods for best supporting their teams

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

5 hours Continuing Professional Development: key learning outcomes

By working through current challenges with proven techniques, the participants returned to their workplaces with a new frame of mind, plus, the tools to enable their teams to be both engaged and productive. Main focuses on the day 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

Developed with convenience in mind

With an enhanced emphasis on networking, interactive discussion and idea sharing, this online course provided all the elements needed to deliver change.

  • Evidenced based examples and scenarios: reflecting on how best to support your team
  • Interactive presentations: best practice examples and first-hand experiences
  • Closed room discussions: benchmarking and engaging with fellow attendees
  • Agreed action plan: leaving with the confidence to make changes

This course is available for in-house training

Available as bespoke training to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this course delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

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

With thanks to Sam Toland for speaking

Samantha Toland is an experienced speaker and lecturer who has previously been described by attendees as ‘especially engaging’ and ‘very inspiring’.

Samantha Toland

Lead Chemotherapy Nurse
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Who came?

This online meeting is ideal for leaders and managers working in oncology. Attendees on the day included:

  • 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!

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“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
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“Really useful information shared. It was nice to share with other colleges and learn from their experiences”
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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“Excellent opportunity for nurses to join and improve knowledge”
- The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
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“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
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“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
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“The entire session was very well presented and it will really help with my practice!”
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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“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
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“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

Why sponsor an Oncology National Networking Forum

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing oncology delivery forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:
Sarah Kemm
Contact: 01732 897788
Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk