Trust Fellow in Paediatric Critical Care Transport (NECTAR) (ST3-8)
The closing date is 10 December 2025
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; one available from February 2026 and another 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.
About us
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
Job 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
* Primary Medical Qualification.
* Full GMC registration at time of application.
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
* 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.
* Evidence of advanced airway skills.
* Additional general paediatric training.
Maintaining Clinical Competence
* Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments.
Teaching
* Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors.
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
* Experience of audit projects and research.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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