Job summary
We are delighted to be able to offer opportunities for motivated, ambitious individuals to join our well-integrated team. The vacancy has arisen for one Trust Fellow (ST1-2) in Cardiothoracic Medicine, based within the Cardiothoracic Department, at the Freeman Hospital.
The post is to commence from 6 August 2025 until 4 August 2026.
"We typically receive several hundred applications for ST1/2 locally employed doctor posts and we will therefore only shortlist candidates with paid NHS experience (this does not include Clinical Access or Clinical Observership placements) which is an essential criteria within the Person Specification. Please do not apply if you do not have paid NHS experience as this leads to significant clinician time reviewing applications from applicants who will not be shortlisted."
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.
Main duties of the job
These posts are an exciting opportunity to gain experience in Cardiothoracic Medicine at SHO / IM1-2 level, encompassing management of common and advanced respiratory and cardiac diseases but also aspects of the specialties not readily available elsewhere.
In particular, the Freeman Hospital is one of the UK's leading highly specialised centres for advanced lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, and bronchiectasis, with an internationally renowned centre for Lung Transplantation. Similarly, the Freeman hosts a full range of specialised Cardiac Services including coronary/structural interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, device implantation/extraction, cardiac imaging, advanced heart failure, an adult congenital heart disease service, cardiac surgery and heart transplantation. The successful applicant will have a unique opportunity to gain some clinical experience in these sub-specialties.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:
Dr Andrew Stanton, Consultant Respiratory Physician on 0191 223 1487 or email: andrew.stanton@nhs.net
Dr Tim Cartlidge, Consultant Cardiologist on 0191 223 1459 or email t.cartlidge@nhs.net
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
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 description
Job responsibilities
The clinical work is centred on delivering care to the cardiology and respiratory in-patients at Freeman Hospital at IM1-2 level. One post will involve primarily cardiology patient care and the other a mix of cardiology and respiratory cover, This is due to reconfiguration of bed base with increased mix of speciality patients on one ward. Both posts involve on-call cover for both cardiology and respiratory patients and there are training opportunities (clinic, procedure list attendance) across both specialities in both posts.
RESPIRATORY In-patients
Duties on this ward have a focus on general respiratory care of patients transferred from the assessment suite at RVI or admitted from speciality clinics. This includes a wide spectrum of respiratory disease, including patients requiring non-invasive ventilation. There are opportunities to learn from patients undergoing more specialised assessments (lung transplant and pulmonary hypertension) on the ward, with rotation to the transplant team alongside existing IM trainees (currently 3 + 1 trust Teaching fellow grade doctor).
There is immediate ward support from a trust grade registrar as well as speciality trainees and consultants. We operate with a consultant of the week model which is valued by our trainees. There are opportunities to develop practical skills in managing non-invasive ventilation and basic pleural procedures, primarily potentially pleural aspiration / chest drain insertion but also opportunities to gain exposure and early experience in thoracic ultrasound. There may be opportunities to attend speciality clinics (sleep, severe asthma, lung cancer, pleural disease, transplant, pulmonary hypertension, bronchiectasis, COPD) depending on individual interest and involvement in audit / quality improvement projects is actively encouraged.
CARDIOLOGY In-patients
Duties to Cardiology in-patients will involve working across 4 dedicated cardiology ward areas (CCU, W24, W27 Daycase Unit, W27 Heart Failure Unit) and caring for outliers on other Cardiothoracic wards. The main conditions being managed include acute coronary syndromes, unstable arrhythmias, valve disease, advanced heart failure and adult congenital heart disease.
This post will join a resident doctor rota of F1, F2, IMT1-2, trust doctors and teaching fellows. You will be supported by the cardiology consultants, who work on a consultant-of-the-week rota, sub-specialty teams, and a cardiology StR on-call 24 hrs per day.
During this post you will be encouraged to join our education programme, including weekly 'SHO' case-based teaching and the weekly journal club. There will be opportunity to join procedure lists, imaging lists, outpatient clinics, MDTs and clinical governance meetings. We are very happy to support you undertaking quality improvement work or research projects.
Administrative:
Successful applicants will be expected to carry out all administrative tasks allocated to him/her by the clinical supervisor / Physician of the week, including keeping of inpatient records, ordering investigations, receiving results and completing discharge summaries.
Other:
This post includes on call cover which is shared with cardiology and respiratory IM level doctors. This includes evenings and weekend but not nights.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trusts 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The clinical work is centred on delivering care to the cardiology and respiratory in-patients at Freeman Hospital at IM1-2 level. One post will involve primarily cardiology patient care and the other a mix of cardiology and respiratory cover, This is due to reconfiguration of bed base with increased mix of speciality patients on one ward. Both posts involve on-call cover for both cardiology and respiratory patients and there are training opportunities (clinic, procedure list attendance) across both specialities in both posts.
RESPIRATORY In-patients
Duties on this ward have a focus on general respiratory care of patients transferred from the assessment suite at RVI or admitted from speciality clinics. This includes a wide spectrum of respiratory disease, including patients requiring non-invasive ventilation. There are opportunities to learn from patients undergoing more specialised assessments (lung transplant and pulmonary hypertension) on the ward, with rotation to the transplant team alongside existing IM trainees (currently 3 + 1 trust Teaching fellow grade doctor).
There is immediate ward support from a trust grade registrar as well as speciality trainees and consultants. We operate with a consultant of the week model which is valued by our trainees. There are opportunities to develop practical skills in managing non-invasive ventilation and basic pleural procedures, primarily potentially pleural aspiration / chest drain insertion but also opportunities to gain exposure and early experience in thoracic ultrasound. There may be opportunities to attend speciality clinics (sleep, severe asthma, lung cancer, pleural disease, transplant, pulmonary hypertension, bronchiectasis, COPD) depending on individual interest and involvement in audit / quality improvement projects is actively encouraged.
CARDIOLOGY In-patients
Duties to Cardiology in-patients will involve working across 4 dedicated cardiology ward areas (CCU, W24, W27 Daycase Unit, W27 Heart Failure Unit) and caring for outliers on other Cardiothoracic wards. The main conditions being managed include acute coronary syndromes, unstable arrhythmias, valve disease, advanced heart failure and adult congenital heart disease.
This post will join a resident doctor rota of F1, F2, IMT1-2, trust doctors and teaching fellows. You will be supported by the cardiology consultants, who work on a consultant-of-the-week rota, sub-specialty teams, and a cardiology StR on-call 24 hrs per day.
During this post you will be encouraged to join our education programme, including weekly 'SHO' case-based teaching and the weekly journal club. There will be opportunity to join procedure lists, imaging lists, outpatient clinics, MDTs and clinical governance meetings. We are very happy to support you undertaking quality improvement work or research projects.
Administrative:
Successful applicants will be expected to carry out all administrative tasks allocated to him/her by the clinical supervisor / Physician of the week, including keeping of inpatient records, ordering investigations, receiving results and completing discharge summaries.
Other:
This post includes on call cover which is shared with cardiology and respiratory IM level doctors. This includes evenings and weekend but not nights.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trusts 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.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Essential Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice at the time of application
- Completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent
- Previous paid NHS experience at FY / ST level
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Evidence of seeing patients with respiratory disease
Maintaining Clinical Competence
Essential
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. procedural / clinic logs
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential
- Understands the importance of Governance and Audit
- Experience of participation in audit projects
Desirable
- Completed audit project
- Participation in formal research activity
- Abstracts presented to learned societies
- Published papers
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential
- 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
- Evidence of excellent team-working skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's Values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Time management skills
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership skills.
- IT literate
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Essential Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice at the time of application
- Completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent
- Previous paid NHS experience at FY / ST level
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Evidence of seeing patients with respiratory disease
Maintaining Clinical Competence
Essential
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. procedural / clinic logs
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential
- Understands the importance of Governance and Audit
- Experience of participation in audit projects
Desirable
- Completed audit project
- Participation in formal research activity
- Abstracts presented to learned societies
- Published papers
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential
- 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
- Evidence of excellent team-working skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's Values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Time management skills
Desirable
- 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
