RCH Neuromuscular Fellowship 2026

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 Neuromuscular Fellowship 2026

The Neuromuscular Fellowship includes a mix of service and training activities and is tailored to the trainee’s skills and needs. The fellowship offers clinical training in diagnosis and management of neuromuscular diseases. The fellow will have the opportunity to participate in the development of clinical research projects.

Clinical duties will be supervised by one of the neuromuscular neurologists.

Specific duties of the Fellow include:

• Seeing patients in the weekly supervised multidisciplinary neuromuscular clinic.
• Seeing patients in a weekly supervised general neurology clinic.
• Attendance at the weekly nerve conduction/electromyography list, and any additional studies scheduled for outpatients/inpatients.
• Coordination of inpatient neurophysiologic studies.
• Seeing neuromuscular inpatient admissions and consults, and supervision of junior medical staff attending these patients.
• Attendance at Neurology ward rounds and clinical meetings, and coordination of regular departmental neuropathology meetings.
• Attend and present at the weekly Neurology seminars, and attend the weekly Neuroradiology Meeting.
• Participation in the after-hours on-call roster.
• Involvement in a clinical research project is encouraged. This may take up to one day per week.

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

Teaching

The fellowship provides ample time to attend clinical meetings, ward rounds, and seminars, observe specialised clinics, and learn important aspects of neurophysiology and multidisciplinary management of neuromuscular disorders.

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.

Six months of the fellowship can be accredited as core training by the RACP STC in Neurology and six months as non-core training.

For further information contact Ian.Woodcock@rch.org.au or 03 9345 5661

For a detailed copy of the Position Description please click here

Please note that the successful applicant must undergo a police and working with children check. In addition, all International Medical Graduate applicants will need to refer to the AHPRA website to ensure they have passed the necessary English language test: https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Registration/Registration-Standards/English-language-skills.aspx

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.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

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.

Are you ready to join our team? 

 Apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button

Applications close 30 May 2025