Clinical Fellow in Transport Medicine/NECTAR (ST3+ equivalent)

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. 

This Adult NECTAR clinical fellow post (ST3+ equivalent) in transfer medicine is at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Note that this post requires 2 years prior postgraduate training in critical care / anaesthesia / medicine (including a minimum of 3 months post-foundation critical care experience) and candidates must already hold Initial Anaesthesia Competencies.

This post is based at NECTAR (North East and Cumbria Transfer and Retrieval) Service, predominantly to cover the adult service, but opportunities are available to work within the paediatric service when time allows too. This post would be ideally suited to someone interested in intensive care medicine, anaesthesia or prehospital medicine.

GMC registration with a licence to practise is required at time of application. This post is fixed term for 6-12 months, beginning February 2025. 

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.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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The post is at registrar level, and successful candidates will be expected to have prior experience in intensive care and to be competent to work with indirect supervision. 

The adult NECTAR service provides transport for critically ill adults within the North East & North Cumbria, Yorkshire, and also further afield. 

This post is intended to provide experience in adult critical care, transport & retrieval medicine including training equivalent to that recommended by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Tom Payne-Doris via email at [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.