The ACSC coordinates professional development opportunities through a range of education and research forums, in-services and tailored programs (including clinical placements and site visits). Programs are open to Victorian, national and international professionals, unless otherwise specified.
Clinical Placement Program in Cancer Survivorship
The Clinical Placement Program in Cancer Survivorship is now accepting applications.
This is an exceptional opportunity to expand your knowledge, gain new skills and connect with leaders in the field.
We are not actively recruiting at this time.
However we are accepting applicants on a limited basis for allied health professionals including dietitians, speech pathologists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, and social workers. If you would like to be considered, please submit an application using the link below.
CPPiCS Participant Application form
About the program
The Clinical Placement Program in Cancer Survivorship (CPPiCS) is a Victorian Government funded program that aims to improve access to quality survivorship care by enhancing the knowledge, confidence and capacity of health professionals who provide this care.
This program sits under Pillar Four of the Victorian Cancer Plan 2024-2028 action to build and retain a strong cancer workforce.
This is the fifth iteration of the program. Eligible health professionals will be allied health professionals and nurses with distinct roles in cancer care in Victoria. We aim to provide at least 200 placements, with a focus on regional and rural health professionals.
Benefits of the program
- Build knowledge and confidence in survivorship care
- Observe the components of survivorship care delivered in clinical practice
- Network and establish links between community and hospital-based professions
Program components
- Cancer survivorship education (pre- and post-placement)
- Observational survivorship-focused clinical placement at a health service
- Completion of a post-placement workplace activity
- Access to cancer survivorship events and additional education
Further information
If you would like more information about the Clinical Placement Program in Cancer Survivorship, please contact the ACSC Project Team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
We are inviting allied health professionals and nurses working with cancer patients/survivors to join the Clinical Placement Program in Cancer Survivorship.
Note – Placements are limited. Additional participant recruitment rounds will open throughout 2025, 2026 and 2027, based on availability.
To be eligible, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Presently working in Victoria
- Be an allied health professional or nurse working with cancer patients/survivors
- Able to commit to all program components including attending at least one placement (4 to 8 hours) at a health service, with the capacity to travel to and from the elected placement site
Successful participants are required to:
- Schedule into a placement via an online booking system
- Complete pre-placement cancer survivorship education (3 to 5 hours, online)
- Attend your scheduled placement
- Undertake a post-placement workplace activity within 3 months of placement
- Provide a description of the post-placement workplace activity, due 3 months post-placement
- Complete two post-placement surveys – within one week post-placement and a follow-up survey 3 months post-placement
See the Promotional flyers for participant recruitment.
Some participants may be eligible for travel reimbursements (conditions apply).
Health and community health services across Victoria are invited to join the project as host sites, offering placement opportunities in cancer survivorship care. To be eligible, your health service should:
- Be an acute, rehabilitation or community health service
- Provide oncology specific care
- Provide some focus on post-treatment survivorship care
- Be able to provide a positive learning environment for participants to observe and discuss aspects of survivorship care.
If your health service meets these criteria and is interested in hosting placements as part of this program, you will need to submit an expression of interest (EOI).
Please read the associated EOI Guidelines prior to submitting an EOI Application.
We will be accepting host site EOI applications throughout 2025 and 2026.
There have been four past iterations of CPPiCS that have been held since 2015, led by the ACSC.
The pilot program (2015) comprised 16 GP and 12 practice nurses (PN) who completed placements at a single centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac). The evaluation of this pilot established that a clinical placement program was feasible, and clinically and professionally valuable.
The second iteration (2016) included 33 GP and 16 PN participating in placements that focused on a broader approach to cancer survivorship and bi-directional learning.
The third iteration (2017–2019) reached 53 GP, 15 PN and 22 AHP. In this iteration, AHP were included for the first time. AHP showed high interest, resulting in a waitlist for placements.
The fourth iteration (2022-2024) provided 40 PN and 166 AHP survivorship placements across 10 health services, including acute, rehabilitation, community health and paediatric services. It showed that short observational placements alongside online education can improve survivorship knowledge and confidence, which may be translated into clinical practice.
Key findings and reference from past iterations:
Cancer survivorship orientation package
The ACSC developed this resource to orient new health service staff to available survivorship education, events, professional development and key resources for health professionals and cancer survivors. Download this resource and add to your services orientation documents or share with new colleagues interested or working in cancer survivorship, or cancer care more broadly.
Online learning
The ACSC collaborates with many leading organisations to deliver survivorship-related webinars.
Collaborations have included the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA), Cancer Nurses Society of Australia (CNSA), Cancer Council Victoria (CCV), the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA).
Follow upcoming professional development webinars, and to view previously delivered webinars, visit our Health Professional Events page.
Survivorship – Reconsidering Clinical Care, Policy, and Research Priorities for the Modern Era presented by Prof Michael Jefford, ACSC Director, at the 2023 COSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
Supporting people living with and beyond cancer presented by Prof Michael Jefford, ACSC Director, at the 2024 COSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
Cancer survivorship course
- 6-module introductory course for all health professionals
- offers up-to-date, evidence-based practical tools, tips and resources designed to help you improve care for people affected by cancer.
- The course was developed by ACSC in collaboration with Peter Mac, the University of Sydney, the Queensland University of Technology and national survivorship experts.
Cancer survivorship rapid learning
- 15 minutes rapid learning module for all health professionals
- Discusses the term ‘cancer survivor’, key survivorship resources, the importance of healthy lifestyle behaviours, survivorship care plans and engaging primary care in cancer survivorship.
- This rapid learning was developed by eviQ and the ACSC.
Cancer survivorship for primary care practitioners
- 4-week course for primary care practitioners including general practitioners, nurses and allied health professionals.
- Explores the importance of cancer survivorship, how to provide effective care plans, the psychosocial and emotional impacts of cancer survivorship care and more.
- Accreditation available
- This course was developed by The University of Melbourne
Health After Cancer Online course for primary care physicians
- Online course for primary care physicians
- Presents basic principles of cancer survivorship and aims to raise awareness of the complex physical and psychosocial needs of cancer survivors
- This course was developed by Stanford Medicine (US)
In-services and site visits
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The ACSC offers in-service education to Peter Mac departments to help up-skill teams and support development of enhanced survivorship care in their unit.
For more information contact ACSC at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Contact Details
For any survivorship education enquiries, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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