Welcome to the Training and Education in Cancer Care section of the Norfolk and Waveney ICS website.
This is the place to find out about:
- Self-care support resources regarding how to maintain your own well-being in the workplace
- Training and education to start or build your knowledge and skills in cancer care/cancer diagnostics.
- Signposting links to further information regarding cancer care/cancer diagnostics training and education courses
Cancer care and diagnostics education and training options
There are many different training and education courses available about cancer care/cancer diagnostics.
Education pathways, for example:
- There are education pathways if you want to study at certificate, diploma, undergraduate level or post graduate courses that lead to a specialist qualification.
- There are education modules that improve your skills in a particular area of care on a stand-alone basis or as part of a degree pathway.
- There are short training courses and study days to develop your practical clinical and non-clinical skills. Many people attend these in their own time/at their own pace – studying part time to fit around work and home life – to build qualifications over a number of years.
- If you are returning to education after a long break in your studies, there are always library and knowledge support staff attached to the courses, who can work with you to help improve your academic skills too.
Short training courses can cover for example:
- Prevention, diagnosis of cancer, treatment of cancer.
- Care for specific cancer tumour types/pathways.
- Support for patients through their cancer journey – providing information, psychosocial support, improving communication skills, providing personalised care and support planning.
- Leadership and professional development.
- Supportive, palliative and end of life care.
You can attend some of the training and education in person or access it via on-demand e-learning courses and videos, live online courses and programmes, electronic resources and toolkits.
How to access cancer education and training
If you’re keen to start building your skills and knowledge in cancer care or diagnostics, your next steps could include:
- Contacting your local Education College and/or University for further information about training/education which could lead to a career in cancer/cancer diagnostics. This could include:
- Certificate/diploma level training and or apprenticeships in health and social care, which could lead into pathway navigation/administration and supportive and assistive roles in health and social care.
- Vocational degree courses, which could lead into to a registered role (such as in nursing, medicine, social work, pharmacy or allied health professionals) and/or science-based degree subject, such as physics, which could lead into clinical science roles in diagnostics and radiotherapy.
- If you are still in full time education – talk to your careers office the training and education. You could also look at the Health and Care Academies, which could help you work out a starting point. We also have a health and care academy for Norfolk and Waveney.