Current Opportunities

We are seeking a Patient and Carer Representative who has worked with an AHP during their cancer pathway. If you’ve had experience with any of the following AHPs, we’d love to hear about your story for our podcast:
There are 14 categories of AHP as follows; Art therapists, Dietitians, Drama therapists, Music therapists, Occupational therapists, Operating department practitioners, Orthoptists, Osteopaths, Paramedics, Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, Prosthetists and orthotists, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiographers, Speech and language therapists.

This podcast is a chance to showcase how AHPs have supported you and to inspire others to join this essential profession and will record in August and September, the team are able to be flexible on dates and times.

If you are interested in participating in this opportunity or would like more information please contact us through the ‘Enquire About Opportunity’ tab below or email the Cancer Voices email address gmcancer.voices@nhs.net.

The film will be used across the Manchester Cancer Research Centre’s website, social media channels and digital advertising platforms.

You will feature in the film alongside two melanoma researchers from Manchester. We will ask you a few questions about your experience, including when you were first diagnosed, what treatment you received, your advice to others who think they may have signs of skin cancer and your hopes for the future of melanoma research.

Details of the filming session:

• The patient needs to be available on Tuesday 23^rd July.
• Filming will take place at the Paterson Building in Withington, Manchester
• Filming should take between 1 hour – 1.5 hours of the patient’s time
• We can be very flexible and can film the patient anytime between 09:30-14:00.

If you are interested in participating in this opportunity or would like more information please contact us through the ‘Enquire About Opportunity’ tab below or email the Cancer Voices email address gmcancer.voices@nhs.net.

We currently have one Patient Representative but are seeking another Patient and/or Carer Representatives to join the Psychological Support and Mental Health Delivery Group. These two representatives will work together to represent the collective views of patients and carers at the meeting by identifying appropriate areas for contribution, and to hold the group accountable to the work they have committed to.

Psychological Support & Mental Health Delivery Group Dates 2024 are as follows:

Wednesday 14:00 to 16:00: 19th June – Via MS Teams

Wednesday 25th Sept – Face to Face (Venue TBC)

Wednesday 4th Dec – Via MS Teams

If you would like more information about the role you can read the role profile here.

If you are interested in participating in this opportunity or would like more information please contact us through the ‘Enquire About Opportunity’ tab below or email the Cancer Voices email address gmcancer.voices@nhs.net.

The session will help you by: 

• Increasing your knowledge of key messages around reducing your risk of cancer, the national cancer screening programmes, and spotting cancer early 
• Building your confidence to talk to the public about cancer 
• Helping you to encourage people to make healthy changes, access local services and visit their GP promptly with any concerns 
• Enhance your knowledge of prevention and early diagnosis messages

If you’re able to promote health and wellbeing in your community, the Talk Cancer training can give you the confidence and knowledge you need to get the best from your conversations.

As mentioned above, we will go through information on how people can reduce their risk of cancer through things like not smoking and keeping a healthy weight, the importance of visiting your GP promptly with any concerns and the national screening programmes available.

We also set the scene and talk about what cancer is and the treatments people may have. This is the information we present to all audiences based on the latest evidence.

 If you are interested in attending this workshop, you can register for a place using the link here.

If you have experience, as a patient or a carer, with any of the following cancer types, we’d love to hear from you:

• breast
• colorectal
• head and neck
• lung
• oesophago-gastric
• skin
• urology (kidney, bladder and prostate).

You may also have experience of going to A&E with an emergency related to your cancer, treatment or received a new diagnosis of any cancer.

A small community is a group of Patient and Carer Representatives who have experience of a specific cancer/tumour type, who come together every few months to influence the work of the pathway board for that cancer type.

We are looking to expand our small communities to ensure we hear from a diverse range of patient and carer viewpoints, and are particularly interested in those who have been diagnosed or affected by cancer recently.

For more information on small communities, and experience/skills required, please read our role profile.

Sharing your experience about cancer can be really helpful for others. It helps raise awareness of different types of cancer amongst members of the general public as well as highlighting cancer symptoms people can look out for in a more personal and memorable way than an information leaflet. It also helps demystify cancer, encourage conversations around cancer, lets people know about treatment involved and helps us to demonstrate that a variety of different people are affected by cancer. We are also interested in hearing from people caring for those with cancer. You can see examples of other patient stories on our news page.

To enquire about this opportunity please send us your name, age, cancer type, month and year of diagnosis, the area of Greater Manchester you live in, your phone number, and other brief information which you feel might be relevant or newsworthy.
***Please be aware we might not be able to reply to you immediately but will endeavour to send a reply within a fortnight.