The ACCEND programme is designed to develop and value staff, encouraging them to explore new opportunities and aspirations. By doing so, we aim to improve patient care.
The ACCEND framework is made up of three main components:
Career pathway
The career pathway aims to provide insight and guidance for the knowledge, behaviours and skills required to be working at each level of practice to enable the workforce to grow.
Core Cancer Capabilities in Practice (CiPS)
Capabilities are the attributes (skills, knowledge, and behaviours) which individuals bring to the workplace. These are spilt into different domains within the framework and are broken down for each level of practice.
Education Framework
The education framework provides high level learning outcomes, syllabus and suggested assessment strategies for each part of the career pathway, supporting the knowledge requirements of the core cancer CiPs.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Greater Manchester Cancer Academy to offer the ePortfolio Platform to our workforce. The ePortfolio offers a great central space to record your educational development, reflections, case study reviews, accreditations, and certificates. Centred around the capabilities and levels of practice within the ACCEND framework, the ePortfolio offers a digital interactive version of the framework which allows you log your learning achievements, enabling opportunities to highlight developmental areas and focus career progression.