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We are seeking an experienced, dynamic and influential leaders to join our cancer team as Macmillan Cancer Workforce Development Lead. These senior roles will provide strategic and clinical leadership to drive the regional implementation of the Aspirant Cancer Career Education and Development (ACCEND) Framework, supporting the development of a skilled, sustainable and future‑ready cancer workforce.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work across organisational boundaries to influence education, workforce planning and professional development, ensuring people affected by cancer receive safe, high-quality, person-centred care.
You will be a clinically credible senior professional with current registration with the NMC or HCPC and have a passion for cancer workforce education and transformation.
This is a unique opportunity to shape cancer care at scale, influencing practice and outcomes across an entire region rather than within a single organisation. You will work within the National Cancer Team and in close partnership with Macmillan to deliver meaningful, systemwide workforce change that makes a real difference to people affected by cancer.
Main duties of the job
The role requires an autonomous dynamic leader with advanced clinical expertise, strong educational acumen, and the ability to influence and collaborate across organisation boundaries to shape the future cancer workforce.
The post holder(s) will lead the regional implementation of the Aspirant Cancer Career Education and Development Framework (ACCEND). This will include highly specialist clinical leadership, and specialist educational advice to design, deliver and monitor systems that enable continuous learning, career progression for the cancer clinical workforce to deliver safe, high quality person‑centred care to people affected by cancer.
The role will be responsible for regional co‑ordination across health boards/trusts, Health Education and Improvement Wales and education providers. Requiring collaboration to establish robust systems, processes, and resources that foster continuous learning, professional development, and career progression for the clinical cancer workforce.
Provide highly specialist guidance and support to the cancer workforce, ensuring staff are equipped with the knowledge and skills required to deliver safe, high‑quality, person‑centred care for patients.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
We are Public Health Wales - the national public health agency in Wales. Our purpose is 'Working together for a healthier Wales'. We exist to help everyone in Wales live longer, healthier, happier lives. Together with our partners, we work to increase healthy life expectancy, improve health and well‑being, and reduce inequalities for everyone in Wales.
Our teams work to prevent disease, protect health, and provide leadership, specialist services and public health expertise. We are the leading source of public health information, research and innovation in Wales.
We are guided by our Values, 'Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference'. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace that values equality and diversity and support flexible working arrangements, including part time roles and job sharing.
Job responsibilities
Planning and Design
Regional programme leadership across multiple agencies/professions, with accountability for co‑ordinating multiple inter‑dependent projects within the programme.
Develop a comprehensive implementation plan for the ACCEND Framework across the regional organisations, setting milestones, governance structures and assurance mechanisms.
Provide assurance that the programme is aligned with national standards and local workforce priorities.
Ensure integration with existing workforce development initiatives, avoiding duplication and promoting synergy across Health Boards and Trusts.
Managing organisational interdependencies between Health Boards, HEIW and education providers.
Service Improvement and change leadership
Leading regional change management programme with significant impact on service delivery and workforce capability.
Using quality improvement methodology, develop performance metrics, Key Performance Indicators and audits to measure the effectiveness of the implementation of the ACCEND Framework in enhancing workforce capability, career progression and patient care outcomes, and to identify gaps, risks and opportunities for improvement.
Analyse workforce data and feedback to inform continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring the framework remains responsive to evolving clinical and educational needs.
Produce detailed progress reports and recommendations for senior leadership, highlighting successes, challenges and areas requiring corrective action.
Facilitate learning from best practice and lessons learned, sharing insights across Health Boards/Trusts to drive consistency and quality in implementation.
Influencing senior leaders to adopt new ways of working across the region and ensuring their sustainability by embedding the into organisational structures.
Analytical & Judgement
Expected to make highly complex judgements that involve balancing multiple interdependent factors such as clinical priorities, educational requirements, workforce capacity and wider regional system objectives.
Interpret high‑risk, uncertain or ambiguous workforce intelligence, drawing out the implications for the regional cancer workforce, and translating this into clear, actionable strategic recommendations that influence regional.
Acting autonomously in decision‑making, including determining when issues require escalation, initiating appropriate mitigation, and implementing governance actions when workforce‑related risks emerge across Health Boards or Trusts.
Providing autonomous professional judgement to resolve conflicting stakeholder priorities, using advanced negotiation and influencing skills to determine the most appropriate course of action that maintains regional alignment and supports cohesive implementation of the cancer workforce development agenda.
Synthesising and evaluating complex workforce, service and educational data, identifying trends, risks and opportunities and informing proactive workforce planning across organisational boundaries.
Communications
Develop and implement a clear communication strategy to support the successful rollout of the ACCEND Framework, ensuring consistent messaging across Health Boards and Trusts.
Engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, clinical teams, education providers and workforce planners, to secure buy‑in and collaboration.
Facilitate effective information sharing through meetings, workshops, reports and digital platforms, promoting transparency and understanding of project objectives and progress.
Represent the programme at regional and national forums, articulating goals, achievements and challenges in a professional and persuasive manner.
Communicates highly sensitive and complex information with discretion, ensuring clarity and accuracy in all communications.
Demonstrate the ability to use influencing and negotiating skills, building consensus and overcoming resistance in complex organisational settings.
Ability to present complex information clearly and concisely, using data and evidence to support decision making.
Clinical
* Provide highly specialist clinical leadership and educational advice to support workforce capability to a multiprofessional workforce in a variety of clinical settings.
* Provide highly specialist advice and guidance for the delivery of clinical supervision, coaching and mentoring within clinical practice, demonstrating the ability to provide constructive feedback and guidance while fostering a supportive environment that promotes psychological safety, confidence, well‑being and professional growth.
Provides specialist training to a range of staff, devising, developing and delivering clinical education programmes.
* Advanced knowledge of cancer pathways, clinical management and delivery of person‑centred care.
* Highly developed analytical and judgement skills to provide operational, strategic, governance and legislative advise on issues related to Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) professionals.
Finance and Budget
Manage and monitor budgets supporting ACCEND implementation, ensuring effective use of resources and compliance with organisational policies.
Management, Leadership and Training
Provide strategic and operational leadership for the regional implementation of the ACCEND framework, ensuring alignment with national priorities and local workforce needs.
Engage, inspire and motivate multi‑disciplinary teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
Ability to lead and manage complex change programmes, using evidence‑based approaches to overcome barriers and embed sustainable standards of practice.
The postholder will have a major responsibility in designing, developing and delivering teaching and training programmes, including clinical education sessions, workforce capability and skills development programmes, ACCEND‑aligned learning pathways, supervision and coaching frameworks and regional training resources to support professional development.
Manage competing priorities and resources effectively, ensuring delivery within agreed timescales across a defined region.
Working knowledge of postgraduate education commissioning processes, including contractual and funding arrangements with Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), Health Education Institutes (HEIs) and Health Boards and Trusts.
Knowledge of workplace learning governance and accredited learning processes.
Act as role model for professional standards, promoting accountability, integrity and excellence in cancer care and workforce development.
Operates autonomously within broad professional frameworks and defined organisational priorities, exercising independent judgement in planning and delivering regional workforce development activity.
Digital and Information
Competence with digital learning platforms, learning management systems and virtual collaboration tools.
Ability to interpret workforce and education data, produce dashboards and use insights for decision making.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Professional Registration (NMC or HCPC)
* Masters in relevant health related subject or equivalent level of knowledge and skills and experience.
* Evidence of ongoing, relevant continuing professional development (CPD).
* Quality Improvement Qualification.
* Knowledge and understanding of national and UK nursing and or AHP issues and implications.
* Knowledge of the ACCEND framework.
* Knowledge of health care policy and national directives.
* Leadership management course.
Experience
* Clinically credible with experience in cancer care at a senior level.
* Experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice.
* Programme / project management.
* Experience of working within national cancer policies / cancer improvement plans.
* Experience of working with external stakeholders.
Skills and Attributes
* Ability to think and plan strategically.
* Skills in coaching, mentorship and clinical supervision.
* Ability to work effectively and achieve deadlines.
* Able to analyse, synthesise and present knowledge and information to influence key decisions.
* Proficient in the use of standard Microsoft software, such as Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
* Proficiency in digital communication tools and platforms, ensuring effective engagement in both virtual and face‑to‑face environments.
* Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of our workplace values, together with the underpinning behaviours identified for success in this role.
* Experience of delivering person‑centred care.
* Inclusive and collaborative.
Other
* Ability to travel across organisational boundaries in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service.
* Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, National Cancer Team
£58,379 to £65,723 a year per annum pro rata.
Contract
Secondment
Working pattern
Part‑time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number
028-AC069-0426
Job locations
NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, National Cancer Team
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