2025 Adolescent Medicine Fellow

**Date**:7 Jul 2025

**Location**: 50 Flemington Rd, AU

**Company**:theroyalch

**The Hospital**:
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.

**2025 Adolescent Medicine Fellow**
- Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging
- Challenging and rewarding work environment
- Full time fixed term contract (4/08/2025-30/01/2026)
- Weekly outpatient clinics
- Inclusion on the on call roster supported by 2nd on call consultant
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Friendly and supportive team environment

**About the Role**:
This is a full time 6-month training position with a mix of clinical service, education, research and administrative responsibilities at 86 hours per fortnight within the Department of Adolescent Medicine.

You will be responsible for providing high quality evidence based clinical services for young people and their families, leadership and training of junior medical staff and students and manage inpatients admitted under Adolescent Medicine whist on ward service.

**What you’ll achieve**:

- Provide excellent medical services for inpatients and outpatients in partnership with other medical staff and nursing, allied health and administration staff.
- Coordinate treatment plans for patients communicate these to all relevant team care members.
- Maintain accurate and up to date patient medical files that record clinical decisions including diagnosis, treatment plans, complications, co-morbidities, procedures performed and reports (via the EMR)
- Contribute to junior medical staff education through on the job teaching, informal feedback and debriefing.
- Assist with the medical student teaching programme for students from the University of Melbourne including the Hands on HEADSS program.

**Your skills and experience**:

- Medical degree (registrable in Victoria)
- Advanced trainee (FRACP) having passed both the written and clinical exams
- Experience in adolescent and/or outpatient health services highly desirable

**This position is usually filled by a senior Advanced Trainee in Paediatrics. All Advanced trainees will be considered**.**

If this sounds like you, click **here** to view the position description.

**About the Department**:
The Department of Adolescent Medicine, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, is a multidisciplinary specialty department providing inpatient and outpatient care to adolescents experiencing both physical and mental health concerns. Sub-speciality teams within the Department of Adolescent Medicine include the Eating Disorders Service, specialising in treating adolescents with anorexia nervosa and other restrictive eating disorders, the Gender Service who assist children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria, The Transition Support Service providing care in transition from paediatric to adult health providers, the Young People’s Health Service who provide primary health care for marginalised and at risk youth and the Chronic Illness Peer support (ChIPS) team who facilitate peer support, leadership and participation among adolescent and young adults aged 12-25 living with a chronic illness. Inpatient Adolescent Medicine includes the care of adolescents requiring admission to the RCH for medical conditions with psychosocial complexity, somatisation disorders and medically unstable patients with restrictive type eating disorders.

**What we offer**:

- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay
- Employee Assistance Program
- Parkville location and close to public transport

**Other requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process**:
To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitabili