Current Opportunities
This page contains all current opportunities. You can use the filters to ensure that you see the most relevant opportunities for you.
If you are a healthcare professional and have an opportunity you wish to promote to Patient and Carer Representatives, please complete our short survey
Your perspective and lived experience will be invaluable in shaping realistic scenarios, ensuring the training reflects what matters most to patients and carers.
The group will meet periodically to review draft content, share feedback, and collectively design elements of the training modules. If you are interested in taking part, please submit an expression of interest detailing why you are interested in this project.
Opportunity Details
The gynaecological pathway board is a multi-disciplinary team of varied clinical and non-clinical members that focusses on the development and improvement of cancer services within gynaecological cancer across GM.
The pathway board representative represents the collective views of patients and carers at the pathway board by identifying appropriate areas for contribution. They do this by attending the small community meetings and working with other representatives to understand what topics/matters can be brought forward, and from their attendance at any external support groups/meetings.
Please see the role profile to download: Gynae Pathway Board Patient and Carer Representative – Role Profile March 2025
Opportunity Details
Core interventions include:
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Holistic Needs Assessments and Personalised Care and Support Plans
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End of Treatment Summaries
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Personalised Stratified Follow-Up
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Cancer Care Reviews
We need your help to support the progress of the national planning guidance, encourage shared learning across all parts of care — primary, secondary, community, and social — and help build a coordinated reporting structure that unites stakeholders across the GM Integrated Care System.
Personalised Care Delivery Group Role Profile
If you would like to get involved please get in touch!
Opportunity Details
The Colorectal Pathway Board is a multi-disciplinary team of varied clinical and non-clinical members that has a responsibility to improve cancer care for patients on the Greater Manchester colorectal pathway.
The Pathway Board representative represents the collective views of local patients with cancer, and carers at the Pathway Board meetings by identifying appropriate areas for contribution.
For more information, please take a look at the role profile below.
Colorectal Pathway Board Patient and Carer Representative – Role Profile Nov 24
Opportunity Details
A small community can be defined as an ‘expert by experience’ focus group, where members share lived experience of a particular cancer type/pathway, and help us to make improvements.
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 terms of reference and our role profile