Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee (ST6-8)
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-SUR-25-6965047
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £70,425 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Fellow in Anaesthetics
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee (ST6-8)
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
This appointment is for a period of 12 months commencing in March 2026. The successful candidate will be part of a team of 6 currently (4 domestic and 2 international).
Main duties of the job
The role of fellow in paediatric anaesthesia is designed to give the appointee the necessary skills to work in a tertiary paediatric centre.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The candidate will participate in the general oncall rota for daytime and out of hours emergency theatre, when they will be resident in the hospital.
Weekend on call is alongside registrar and consultant service provision. The fellow will undertake a pain ward round on Saturday alongside the pain nurse, and then independently on Sunday. They will be resident in the hospital from 8am until 2pm Saturday and Sunday, then after discussion with consultant may be oncall from home after this. The expectation is that the fellows will use this opportunity to manage the smooth running of the emergency theatre , and allocation of clinical priority. They will be expected to contact the oncall consultant for advice on complex cases and neonates. They will be contacted for interesting cases and neonates after 2pm, and can therefore maximise their learning opportunities.
Day time working will be a mixture of accompanied and solo working within day case and inpatient theatres. If working solo the fellow will have a named mentor for advice/practical assistance, and the anaesthetic coordinator will also be available. We aim to provide month long blocks of different specialities ( cardiac, neuro/cranio, major general, orthopaedics/spine etc). Depending on previous experience fellows may join PICU or NWTS ( transport service) usually for a period of 6 weeks. Fellows may also join the preoperative assessment clinics, Pain MDT and SIM teaching with prior arrangement. Monthly update meetings including M&M, educational presentations and departmental meeting are part of the protected teaching provision.
Teaching is a full day bimonthly rolling programme run jointly by the northern deaneries, and the fellows are expected to coordinate and organise monthly teaching for the rotational trainees, with oversight of consultants. They are also encouraged to join the weekly ultrasound teaching, and the difficult airway and regional anaesthesia course which run twice yearly.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Possess FRCA or equivalent, and have completed their stage 2 level of training in paediatric anaesthesia.
Desirable criteria
- Stage 3 level of training in paediatric anaesthesia.
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
- Hollie Malone
- Job title
- Assistant Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Further information concerning the post is available from:
Dr Jo Haidon, [email protected]
Dr Alasdair Howie, [email protected]
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