Clinical Fellow in Critical Care (Junior Registrar Equivalent) ST3
| Posting date: | 20 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £67,325 - £76,582 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2026 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 8025157/317-TD-26-120-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our team in Critical Care Medicine.
This post (registrar equivalent) in critical care medicine is rotational throughout critical care at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post is available from 6 August 2026 until 3 August 2027. Note this post is critical care only (no formal anaesthesia placements). A minimum of 2 years clinical experience in the UK 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.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
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.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This role is for clinicians at registrar level interested in working with a dynamic and broad MDT within the critical care units across Newcastle Hospitals. The post is intended to provide experience in adult critical care medicine including intensive care training equivalent to that recommended by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
Successful candidates will be expected to have completed foundation training, have 2 years post foundation experience in acute specialties (anaesthetics/emergency medicine/internal medicine/ACCS) in the NHS 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:Dr Claire Mitchell Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia,telephone0191 282 9815or via emailClaire.mitchell3@nhs.net
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teachingNHS 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.
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.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Saturday 23 May 2026
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our team in Critical Care Medicine.
This post (registrar equivalent) in critical care medicine is rotational throughout critical care at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post is available from 6 August 2026 until 3 August 2027. Note this post is critical care only (no formal anaesthesia placements). A minimum of 2 years clinical experience in the UK 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.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
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.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This role is for clinicians at registrar level interested in working with a dynamic and broad MDT within the critical care units across Newcastle Hospitals. The post is intended to provide experience in adult critical care medicine including intensive care training equivalent to that recommended by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
Successful candidates will be expected to have completed foundation training, have 2 years post foundation experience in acute specialties (anaesthetics/emergency medicine/internal medicine/ACCS) in the NHS 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:Dr Claire Mitchell Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia,telephone0191 282 9815or via emailClaire.mitchell3@nhs.net
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teachingNHS 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.
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.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Saturday 23 May 2026
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