What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Fellow in Transport Medicine/NECTAR (ST3+ equivalent) position at Freeman Hospital?
Employer heading
Clinical Fellow in Transport Medicine/NECTAR (ST3 equivalent)
NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 4 (MT04)
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
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, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job Overview
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.
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
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
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Victoria Cowan Job title HR Advisor Email address victoria.cowan2@nhs.net
Clinical Fellow in Transport Medicine/NECTAR (ST3 equivalent)
NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 4 (MT04)
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
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, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job Overview
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.
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
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
Detailed Job Description And Main 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
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC registration with a license to practise at time of application
- Post graduate intensive care qualification.
Essential criteria
- 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.
- 1 year Intensive care training.
- 1 year Anaesthesia training.
- Additional general medicine training.
Essential criteria
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments
- Experience of supervising junior staff.
- Ability to teach clinical skills.
- Suitable procedural skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior staff.
- Ability to teach clinical skills.
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit projects.
- Experience of audit projects and research.
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
- Job Description (PDF, 694.4KB)
- Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
- Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Victoria Cowan Job title HR Advisor Email address victoria.cowan2@nhs.net