John Gale

Currently undertaking the Leadership for Empowered Communities and Personalised Care programme (Cohort 9). 

I am a qualified social worker with experience practicing, leading and transforming services across a variety of Adult Social Care Teams within Cheshire & Merseyside. 

I am passionate about personalised care and was appointed as the Personalised Care Lead in Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance in 2017, undertaking PRINCE2 and leading a variety of transformational projects across the Living with and Beyond Cancer Programme. 

I was appointed as The Cancer Support Workforce Lead, funded via Health Education England in 2021 and as a member of the Aspirant Cancer Career and Education Development programme (ACCEnD) we aim to produce ‘A whole cycle approach to creating a cancer professional’.

The Cancer Support Workforce Programme pulls together key partners across all 4 UK nations with the aim to develop a Nationally agreed career and education pathway, with a variety of education and training, to support all Cancer Support Workers’.  This will be matched to ACCEnD capability framework creating the 1^st step on the ‘end to end’ provision for our cancer workforce.