Clinical Fellow in Transport Medicine/NECTAR ST3+ equivalent

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This Adult NECTAR clinical fellow post (ST3+ equivalent) in transfer medicine is at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Note that this post requires 2 years prior postgraduate training in critical care/anaesthesia/medicine (including a minimum of 3 months post-foundation critical care experience) and candidates must already hold initial Anaesthesia Competencies. GMC registration with a license to practise is required at time of application. This post is to commence 6 August 2025 until 4 August 2026. Previous paid NHS work experience is essential.

Main duties of the job: This post is at registrar level, and successful candidates will be expected to have prior experience in intensive care and to be competent to work with indirect supervision. The adult NECTAR service provides transport for critically ill adults within the North East & North Cumbria, Yorkshire, and also further afield. This post is intended to provide experience in adult critical care, transport & retrieval medicine including training equivalent to that recommended by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

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.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Tom Payne-Doris via email at thomas.payne-doris@nhs.net

About us: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally. We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.

Job responsibilities:

• Interhospital transfer of critically ill adults and 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 work-place based assessments, successful applicants will be expected to gather evidence to use towards the PICS passport and adult critical care transport competency framework. Each fellow will carry out a substantial project during their time at NECTAR such as research, quality improvement or teaching. Successful candidates will be supported to attend (if not already completed): APLS, NAPSTAR, Training for transfer, Fixed wing flight training, Conferences relevant to transport medicine.

As the post holder will be responsible for the assessment and management of critically ill patients with indirect supervision, significant prior experience in intensive care medicine is required, including advanced airway skills and excellent written and spoken English.

Research: There are no specific research duties in this post, however there may be opportunities to take part in ongoing clinical trials.

Teaching: The department has a strong teaching commitment to junior doctors. There is both informal and formal training as well as educational supervision and guidance for the postholders provided in each attachment. Formal study leave to attend relevant regional and national courses (allocation the same as for regional trainees) with reimbursement of expenses (according to the Trust policy and up to the annual limit) also provided. A number of educational sessions are provided which are targeted towards meeting the specific needs of International training fellows and Trust grade doctors (such as introduction to NHS, simulation in the high fidelity simulation centre, communication); there is also access to the departmental, Trust and regional teaching and courses, such as preparation for FRCA and EDIC examinations. Critical care units run weekly formal teaching as well as journal clubs, exam practice, self-directed learning and practical procedure teaching. The opportunity exists for the post-holder to attend educational sessions within other departments of the hospital.

Person Specification:

• Education and Qualifications

• Essential: Primary Medical Qualification, Full GMC registration with a license to practise at time of application
• Desirable: Post graduate intensive care qualification

• Essential: Satisfactory completion of at least 2 years of post-foundation training in anaesthesia and/or medicine and/or Intensive care, Previous paid experience of working in the NHS as a doctor, Minimum 3 months prior intensive care experience, Evidence of significant advanced airway skills, 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: 1 year Intensive care training, 1 year Anaesthesia training, Additional general medicine training

• Essential: Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments, Experience of supervising junior staff, Ability to teach clinical skills
• Desirable: Suitable procedural skills

• Essential: Experience of supervising junior staff, Ability to teach clinical skills

• Essential: Experience of audit projects
• Desirable: Experience of audit projects and research

• Essential: IELTS Overall 7.5, (Speaking 7, Listening 7, Reading 7 Writing 7) or OET grade B (all areas) or Full GMC registration already, Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team, Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines
• Desirable: IELTS overall 8 ( Speaking 7, Listening 7, Reading 7 Writing 7) or OET grade A

• Essential: Alignment with the Trust's Values, Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development, A commitment to personal / unit CPD, Time management skills, Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality
• Desirable: Evidence of leadership skills, IT literate

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.