Fellow in Paed Cardiac Intensive Care and Mechanical Support (ST6+)

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

This post provides an unparalleled opportunity for senior trainees in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine to further their training in all aspects of Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care with an emphasis on heart failure, mechanical support and transplantation. There are research opportunities in the fields of heart failure and mechanical support. The post would be most suitable for trainees who are close to completion of training in PICM or indeed post CCT; in particular those would like to pursue a career in Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care.

This post is to commence as soon as possible for 12 months.

As well as the rapidly developing fields of cardiac transplantation, ECMO and mechanical support in this supra-regional centre; the Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit cares for the full range of congenital cardiac operations for our regional population.

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., This post provides unparalleled training in all aspects of paediatric cardiac intensive care including cardiac transplantation, ECMO and mechanical support. In conjunction with the PICU at the Great North Children's we are accredited for training by the Intercollegiate Committee for Training in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (ICTPICM) and the Royal College for Paediatrics and Child Health.

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.