Provisional Fellow
Employment Type: Temporary - Various
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM25861
Role: Provisional Fellow – Neurology - Epilepsy
Where you’ll be working
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Services is a major teaching hospital and tertiary referral centre, providing excellent healthcare to south-eastern Sydney and specialist health and medical services to NSW.
We have 450 inpatient beds and almost 3,000 staff. Each year we care for more than 58,000 patients in our Emergency Department and around 50,000 patients are admitted to our Hospital. We also have a busy outpatient service and rural outreach service and provide more than 900,000 occasions of non-admitted patient care each year.
Our hospital is affiliated with various Universities and premier medical teaching facilities which enables our staff to provide excellence in healthcare in conjunction with our commitment to quality clinical teaching and leading medical research.
Epilepsy Service
The Comprehensive Epilepsy Service is one of three adult units comprising the NSW Complex Epilepsy Network, along with two children’s hospitals.
- First Seizure Clinic
- Epilepsy Clinic
- Vagus Nerve Stimulator Clinic
- Neurosurgical Clinic
- In-patient video-EEG beds
- Ambulatory EEG Service
- Routine EEG Service (with the Neurophysiology Department)
- Clinical trials
For more information, visit the following website: https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/prince-of-wales-hospital/services-clinics/directory/neurology-services/epilepsy-clinic
What you'll be doing
The Epilepsy Fellow will receive training and gain experience in the diagnosis and management of patients presenting with first seizures or similar events through to drug resistant epilepsy, including diagnostic techniques such as routine EEG, video-EEG and ambulatory EEG, pre-surgical assessment, transition from paediatric services, vagus nerve stimulation and clinical trials.
There is close collaboration with Neurosurgery, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, Nuclear Medicine and Paediatric Neurology. The Epilepsy Fellow manages both in-patients and out-patients under the supervision of the service’s epileptologists. Participation in a weekend Neurology ward round roster is required.
SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to: SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au.
Click 'Apply for Job' to submit your resume and respond to the following selection criteria:
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia in an appropriate registration category
- Currently undertaking or completion of Advanced Training in Neurology and/or relevant Fellowship qualification. Demonstrated experience and ability in reporting EEG.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care.
- Demonstrated high level communication skills, including the ability to convey, and adapt verbal and written information to a clinical and non-clinical audience
- Demonstrated good organisational and time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and risk management.
- Demonstrated high level independent clinical skills and judgement, with the ability to make sound decisions and problem solve with an awareness of limitations and ability to learn independently and modify behaviour accordingly.
- Demonstrated interest and commitment to further education and practice in Neurology - Epilepsy.
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For role related queries or questions contact Prof. Ernest Somerville on Ernest.Somerville@health.nsw.gov.au
For enquiries about the recruitment system or lodging your application through the recruitment portal, you can contact HealthShare NSW at hsnsw-hcmsystem@health.nsw.gov.au or on 1300 443 966.
Applications Close: 05, August 2025
