Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Critical Care
- Grade
- ST3-8
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Start dates available - February 2026 / May 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-TD-25-265
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £65,048 - £73,992 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Trust Fellow in Paediatric Critical Care Transport (NECTAR) (ST3-8)
ST3-8
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
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, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
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 month; 1 available from February 2026 and 1 available May 2026.
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.
Regional PICU at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust acts as a base unit for the regional NECTAR Transport team. It provides regional intensive care for medical patients and supra-regional services for children with surgical, neurosurgical and cardiac problems including ECMO & heart transplant.
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.
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
• Interhospital transfer of critically ill children (with an appropriate level of supervision) by land and air
• Supporting NECTAR practitioners with triage and delivery of practitioner led transfer
• Preparing and presenting case reviews
• Develop communication and shared learning
• Teaching on stabilisation training days
• Multidisciplinary team teaching and simulation
• In addition to workplace-based assessments, successful applicants will be expected to gather evidence to use towards the PICS passport and optionally adult critical care transport competency framework.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC registration at time of application.
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate intensive care qualification.
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Satisfactory completion of at least 2 years of post- foundation training in anaesthesia and/or paediatrics and/or Intensive care and/or paediatric emergency medicine).
- Previous experience of working in the NHS as a doctor
- Minimum 3 months prior paediatric &/or adult intensive care &/or anaesthetic experience
- Good history & examination skills.
- Able to formulate a working diagnosis.
- Able to order appropriate investigations.
- Image interpretation relevant to practice.
- Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague.
Desirable criteria
- 6-month Intensive care training.
- 3-month Anaesthesia training.
- Evidence of advanced airway skills
- Additional general paediatric training.
Maintaining Clinical Competence
Essential criteria
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments.
Desirable criteria
- Suitable procedural skills.
Teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors.
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit projects and research
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Cowan
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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