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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Teaching
Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors.
- Education and Qualifications
Primary medical qualification.
- Education and Qualifications
Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at time of application.
- Education and Qualifications
2 years’ experience at specialist registrar level or equivalent in an acute speciality; paediatrics, anaesthesia, emergency medicine or paediatric surgery.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Good history & examination skills.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Able to formulate a working diagnosis.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Able to order appropriate investigations.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Image interpretation relevant to practice.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague.
- Maintaining Clinical Competence
Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments.
- Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Experience of audit projects.
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Education and Qualifications
Experience in critical care. This can be in a Level 3 neonatal unit or paediatric intensive care unit, or an adult intensive care unit.
- Education and Qualifications
Experience in Paediatric Anaesthesia (for anaesthetic applicants).
- Education and Qualifications
APLS provider or equivalent.
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Technical skills : -Airway management including intubation -Ultrasound guided line insertion
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
NHS experience.
Job overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
Applicants should have 2 years’ experience at specialist registrar level or equivalent in an acute speciality; paediatrics, anaesthesia, emergency medicine or paediatric surgery. Successful applicants must possess full GMC registration at time of application.
Main duties of the job
This Fellowship Programme is designed to provide you with experience in Paediatric Intensive Care and the transport of critically ill children. This post is suitable for clinicians keen to enhance their paediatric critical care skills and knowledge to complement their chosen career path, as well as preparing interested applicants for a career in PICM to be excellent, ambitious clinicians and leaders.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Paediatric Intensive Care The roster generally includes two registrars on each day shift, one on the night shift. The main clinical duties are undertaken under the supervision of a consultant and include:
- Attendance at and contribution to daily ward rounds/handovers
- Assessment, admission and management of critically ill children
- Lead resuscitations and emergency care
- Post-operative management of neurosurgical, orthopaedic, ENT, general surgical patients, bone marrow and kidney transplant recipients
Increased responsibility and autonomy will be granted to more experienced trainees as they progress.
North East Children’s Transport and Retrieval (NECTAR) This post will involve participation in the NECTAR rota in and out of hours, again with increasing responsibility and autonomy as experience is gained.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Trust Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care (ST3+ level) with The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor Anaesthesia and Intensive Care role. The advertised salary is £67,325 - £77,348 per annum. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term). The application deadline is 16 Sep 2026.
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