# Trust Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care (ST3+ level)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal Victoria Infirmary
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £67,325 - £77,348 per annum
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-16T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02T14:22:47.457Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Newcastle_upon_Tyne/The_Newcastle_upon_Tyne_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatric_Intensive_Care/Paediatric_Intensive_Care-v8218331
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8218331?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk

## Job Content

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Teaching

**Essential**

- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors.

### Education and Qualifications

**Essential**

- Primary medical qualification.
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at time of application.
- 2 years’ experience at specialist registrar level or equivalent in an acute speciality; paediatrics, anaesthesia, emergency medicine or paediatric surgery.

**Desirable**

- Experience in critical care. This can be in a Level 3 neonatal unit or paediatric intensive care unit, or an adult intensive care unit.
- Experience in Paediatric Anaesthesia (for anaesthetic applicants).
- APLS provider or equivalent.

### Clinical Skills and Knowledge

**Essential**

- 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.

**Desirable**

- Technical skills : -Airway management including intubation -Ultrasound guided line insertion
- NHS experience.

### Maintaining Clinical Competence

**Essential**

- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments.

### Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

**Essential**

- Experience of audit projects.

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 698.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10583861)
- [newcastle staff benefits (pdf, 274.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2721)
- [behaviour and civility charter (pdf, 93.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2922)

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