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Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer opportunities for highly motivated, ambitious individuals to join our well integrated team at NECTAR (North-East and Cumbria Transfer and Retrieval). Applications are invited for Trust Fellows in Paediatric Critical Care Transport (NECTAR). The posts are for a period of 12 months, beginning February and April 2025. 

The Paediatric NECTAR clinical fellow posts (ST3+ equivalent) require 2 years postgraduate training in PICU/Critical Care/Anaesthesia/Paediatrics (including a minimum of 3 months post-foundation critical care experience) and candidates must already have basic anaesthesia competencies. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a one-year fellowship for a suitably qualified candidate to receive training and experience in paediatric retrieval. This post is predominantly to cover the paediatric service, but opportunities are available to work within the adult service when time allows to. The post would be ideally suited to someone interested in paediatric or adult intensive care medicine, paediatric or adult emergency medicine, anaesthesia or prehospital medicine.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

These posts are at registrar level, and successful candidates will be expected to have prior experience in Paediatrics and/or intensive care and to be competent to work with indirect supervision. 

The paediatric NECTAR service provides transport for critically ill children within the North East & North Cumbria, and occasionally further afield. 

The posts are intended to provide experience in paediatric critical care (general & cardiac) paediatric anaesthesia, transport & retrieval medicine including paediatric ECMO retrievals and training equivalent to that recommended by the Paediatric Intensive Care Society and Royal College of Paediatric & Child Health. 

Nectar fellows will have the chance to gain exposure to multidisciplinary teams and participate in challenging decision-making processes due to the broad range of cases and involvement of various paediatric subspecialties. 

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Raja Abouelella at 01912829425 or via email: [email protected].

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.