Trust Fellow in Paediatric Critical Care Transport (NECTAR)

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated team at NECTAR (North East and Cumbria Transfer and Retrieval). Applications are invited for Clinical Fellows in Paediatric Critical Care Transport. The post is for a period of 12 months.

The Paediatric NECTAR clinical fellow posts (ST3+ equivalent) require 2 years prior 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 the 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

This is an exciting opportunity for a one-year fellowship for a suitably qualified candidate to receive training and experience in paediatric retrieval. This post is predominantly to cover the paediatric service, but opportunities are available to work within the adult service when time allows too. The post would be ideally suited to someone interested in paediatric or adult intensive care medicine, paediatric or adult emergency medicine, anaesthesia, or prehospital medicine.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Nectar fellows will have the chance to gain exposure to multidisciplinary teams and participate in challenging decision-making processes due to the broad range of cases and involvement of various paediatric subspecialities.

This post would be suitable as a stand-alone fellowship, as out-of-programme experience or as a post-CCT fellowship. Applicants wishing to take up a fellowship on a less than full time basis are welcome to apply.