Clinical Fellow in Critical Care (ST3 equivalent)

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS trust in the UK is seeking a Clinical Fellow in Critical Care. The role involves managing patients in an intensive care setting while providing teaching and supervision to junior staff. Applicants must have a Primary Medical Qualification and full GMC registration along with relevant NHS experience. This position offers an annual salary between £65,048 to £73,992, emphasizing a commitment to teaching, research, and flexible work arrangements.

Benefits

Commitment to teaching and research

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• 2 years post foundation experience in acute specialties required.
• Minimum of 3 months ICM experience necessary.
• Previous paid NHS clinical experience essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24-hour care for patients in the intensive care unit.
• Manage referrals from various hospital departments.
• Supervise and teach junior critical care residents.

Skills

Advanced airway skills

Ability to work with indirect supervision

Good history and examination skills

Teamwork and communication

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC registration

Job description

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Fellow in Critical Care (ST3+ equivalent)

The closing date is 07 December 2025

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well‑integrated team.

This locally employed doctor post (registrar equivalent) in critical care medicine is at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust. The post is available from 4th of February for 6-12 months. Note this post is critical care only (no formal anaesthesia placements). A minimum of 2 years post foundation clinical experience in ICM, anaesthesia or general medicine is required, including at least 3 months ICM and suitable advanced airway skills. The post is suitable for applicants who have completed core training in an ICM partner specialty (anaesthetics/internal medicine/emergency medicine) that would allow application to ST3 ICM training.

GMC registration is required: this post is not suitable for MTI programme sponsorship. Previous UK paid NHS experience is essential.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

These posts are at registrar level, and successful candidates will be expected to have completed foundation training, have 2 years post foundation experience in acute specialties (anesthetics/emergency medicine/internal medicine/ACCS). You must have previous paid NHS experience and to be competent to work with indirect supervision within the intensive care unit. Prior experience in intensive care is required - 3 months minimum. Evidence of suitable advanced airways skills is also required.

Part of the role includes management of referrals from other departments within the hospital, including wards, medical admissions units and Emergency Department and providing medical support for the nursing outreach service. Supervision and teaching of more junior critical care residents is an important part of this post.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Claire Mitchell on telephone [phone], or via email at [e-mail].

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.

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

Clinical: The post holder will take part in a full shift rota, along with other trainees, which provides 24‑hour care for patients including weekends and night shifts. This includes:

• Immediate responsibility for care of critical care patients, responsible for the admission and discharge of patients, liaising with other departments and specialties as appropriate, maintaining inpatient records, ordering routine and emergency investigations and receiving and reviewing their results, managing routine and unexpected problems on the critical care unit as they arise, reviewing and admitting new admissions and referrals from both the emergency department and wards, transfer of patients as appropriate compliance with trust and departmental protocols and guidelines.
• 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 essential including advanced airway skills and excellent written and spoken English.

Research:

We have several national and international trials that we run and recruit to, with opportunities for associate PI roles, involvement with the journal club and development of the role as interested.

Medical Education: The departments have a strong teaching commitment to junior doctors and medical students. We have a regular weekly teaching programme and access to simulation. We hope the post‑holder will work closely with our education leads to develop the departmental teaching programme for juniors and medical students.

Clinical Interest Areas: Anaesthesia, maternal medicine, burns, major surgery, transplant, neuro and trauma critical care, recovery after critical illness. The role will primarily be based in critical care with the option to develop specialist interest skills and be supervised by specialists in the above areas to develop clinical and non‑clinical skills managing these patient groups. Opportunities for quality improvement projects and dedicated time in the subspecialty area. Ultrasound (FUSIC mentors): Critical care has a number of FUSIC mentors allowing trainees to undertake formal echo / chest / vascular ultrasound training.

Many of our locally employed doctors go on to take up training posts in various specialties, we actively support projects and experience for specialty applications and can provide support with applications and interview practice.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC registration at time of application, with licence to practice
• Postgrad qualification in general medicine/ anaesthesia / emergency medicine or part of
• Post graduate qualification in anaesthesia or medicine/emergency medicine at a level suitable for ICM ST3 application

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

• Satisfactory completion of foundation training or equivalent
• Previous paid UK NHS clinical experience
• 2 years post foundation experience in medicine/anaesthesia/ICM/emergency medicine
• 3 months postgraduate ICM experience (post foundation)
• Evidence of suitable advanced airway skills e.g. >100 intubations
• Up to date and valid Advanced life support
• Good history & examination skills
• Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague
• Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments
• 6 months prior experience in Intensive care
• 6 months prior experience in anaesthesia

Management and Administration Experience

• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
• Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues
• An understanding of Clinical Governance
• Proven management and administration ability
• Understanding of management goals
• Experience with audit
• Evidence of leadership / project management
• Evidence of having implemented change

Teaching

• Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors
• Experience supervising junior medical colleagues
• PgCert in Med Ed
• Teaching course (i.e Train the Trainer, GIC)
• Evidence with teaching QI/research/audit
• Evidence of contribution to Medical Student Assessment
• Evidence of feedback from teaching

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

• Understanding of audit/research

Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues

• 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

Personal Attributes

• Alignment with the Trust's Core & Professional Behaviours
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• A commitment to personal / unit CPD and maintenance of skills
• Application form fully completed
• Demonstrates a willingness to fully engage in appraisal
• Evidence of leadership skills
• IT literate

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£65,048 to £73,992 a year per annum pro rata