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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. The post is for a period of 12 months and available from August/September 2025. 

Full GMC registration with a license to practise is required at application. Previous experience of working in the NHS is essential. 

The Paediatric NECTAR clinical fellow posts (ST3+ equivalent) require 2 years prior postgraduate training in / critical care / anaesthesia / paediatrics. It is desirable to have a minimum of 3 months post-foundation critical care experience) and desirable for candidates to have basic Anaesthesia Competencies. The regional PICUs at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the Level 3 PCC units for NECTAR, the regional 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. The level 2 unit at James Cook University Hospital provides high dependency care and is part of the long term ventilation hub and spoke service.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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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 transfers and training equivalent to that recommended by the Paediatric Intensive Care Society and Royal College of Paediatric & Child Health.

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.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Raja Abouelella at 0191 2829425 or via email: [email protected].

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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.