Macmillan Cancer Workforce Development Leads

Posting date:	24 April 2026
Salary:	£58,379.00 to £65,723.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£58379.00 - £65723.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	10 May 2026
Location:	Cardiff, CF15 9SS
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	C9028-26-0055

Summary

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 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 highrisk, 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 decisionmaking, including determining when issues require escalation, initiating appropriate mitigation, and implementing governance actions when workforcerelated 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 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. You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac