Rch Uncle Bob's Neurology Fellowship 2026

**Date**:14 Apr 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.

**RCH Uncle Bob's Neurology Fellowship 2026**

The Uncle Bob’s Neurology Fellowship includes a mix of service and training activities. The Fellow will be supervised in his/her clinical duties, which will include outpatient management, inpatient management, inpatient consultations, routine EEG reporting and after-hours emergency management. The Fellowship will include exposure to sub-speciality services including epilepsy and neuromuscular services. Clinics, ward rounds and consultation reviews are all supervised by a consultant and conducted in a teaching format.

Specific duties of the Fellow include:
Daily responsibilities:

- Ward rounds - reviewing new admissions, potential discharges and inpatient consultations.
- Supervise HMO admissions of emergency and elective patients.
- Take phone calls from emergency department, other units, patients and other hospitals.

Weekly responsibilities:

- See patients in a weekly, supervised neurology clinic.
- Attend Neurology ward rounds and clinical meetings. Coordinate meetings and present patients’ histories at neurology ward rounds. Attend and present at the weekly Neurology seminars. Attend the weekly Neuroradiology Meeting.
- Report routine EEGs and review with one of the neurologists up to once a week, depending on the trainee’s level of experience in paediatric neurology and EEG.
- Participate in the after-hours on-call roster.
- The Fellow is encouraged to undertake a clinical research project.

Dependent on service requirements and the Fellow’s level of experience, the fellowship may include a rotation through a specialist epilepsy or neuromuscular rotation.

**Teaching**

The Fellow is encouraged to attend weekly teaching sessions in neurophysiology and clinical neurology run by the department, the RACP paediatric ‘Brain School’, the monthly ANZCNS case presentations, and other relevant courses in neurology and neuroscience if their clinical schedule allows, such as the weekly Victorian adult neurology registrar lectures. The Fellow may also attend specialised clinics and neurophysiology lists.

This fellowship is accredited as 12 months of core training by the RACP ATC in Neurology.

For a detailed copy of the Position Description please click here.

**Why work at the RCH?**

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption