Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site. We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year. As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit. You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including: Great flexible working opportunities Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme Generous annual leave and pension scheme Extensive staff health and well-being programmes Job overview This appointment is for a period of 12 months commencing in February 2027. The successful candidate will be part of a team of 6 currently (4 domestic and 2 international). Advert The role of fellow in paediatric anaesthesia is designed to give the appointee the necessary skills to work in a tertiary paediatric centre. Working for our organisation As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility. Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies. We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters. Detailed job description and main responsibilities The candidate will participate in the general oncall rota for daytime and out of hours emergency theatre, when they will be resident in the hospital. Weekend on call is alongside registrar and consultant service provision. The fellow will undertake a pain ward round on Saturday alongside the pain nurse, and then independently on Sunday. They will be resident in the hospital from 8am until 2pm Saturday and Sunday, then after discussion with consultant may be oncall from home after this. The expectation is that the fellows will use this opportunity to manage the smooth running of the emergency theatre, and allocation of clinical priority. They will be expected to contact the oncall consultant for advice on complex cases and neonates. They will be contacted for interesting cases and neonates after 2pm, and can therefore maximise their learning opportunities. Day time working will be a mixture of accompanied and solo working within day case and inpatient theatres. If working solo the fellow will have a named mentor for advice/practical assistance, and the anaesthetic coordinator will also be available. We aim to provide month long blocks of different specialities ( cardiac, neuro/cranio, major general, orthopaedics/spine etc). Depending on previous experience fellows may join PICU or NWTS ( transport service) usually for a period of 6 weeks. Fellows may also join the preoperative assessment clinics, Pain MDT and SIM teaching with prior arrangement. Monthly update meetings including M&M, educational presentations and departmental meeting are part of the protected teaching provision. Teaching is a full day bimonthly rolling programme run jointly by the northern deaneries, and the fellows are expected to coordinate and organise monthly teaching for the rotational trainees, with oversight of consultants. They are also encouraged to join the weekly ultrasound teaching, and the difficult airway and regional anaesthesia course which run twice yearly. We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at [email protected] or call 0151 282 4599 Please declare within the supporting information if artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in your application. Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.