Aspirant Cancer Career and Education Development (ACCEND)

The overall purpose of the Framework is to support the development of the workforce providing care to people affected by cancer by providing guidance on:

• routes to working, and career progression, in cancer care
• the core cancer related knowledge and CiPs for pre-registration nursing and AHP learners/students, trainee nursing associates and the supportive, assistive, registration level workforce providing cancer care in general and specialist services/roles across the UK nations. Combined, the education framework and CiPs support practitioners across the levels of practice forming the career pathway to develop the core knowledge, skills and behaviours to care for people affected by cancer. In addition, role specific and specialist knowledge, skills and behaviours can be included to meet a practitioner’s role/service requirements, wellbeing and career aspirations. To enable recording of evidence, this Framework will be supported by a digitised portfolio
• the range of learning, development, training and education opportunities to meet the requirements and aspirations of the cancer workforce across the different levels of practice. This can inform commissioning to promote and ensure access to pre and post-registration education, learning and development opportunities for the existing and future workforce caring for people affected by cancer across the age spectrum in general and specialist services
• enabling and supporting employers and systems to deliver high quality services to people affected by cancer by supporting workforce transformation and the health and wellbeing of staff

You can access the framework here: Career Pathway, Core Cancer Capabilities and Education Framework (hee.nhs.uk)

Implementation guides for the framework are also available here: ACCEND Framework | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk)