Metabolic Fellow 2026

The role of the Metabolic Fellow is to work in partnership with a dedicated multi-disciplinary team (MDT) that consists of committed physicians, nurses, dietitians, social worker to co-ordinate and assist in the provision of specialist metabolic care to children and families of Victoria and Tasmania who have a suspected or known inborn error of metabolism. The role will have the opportunity to link with many sub-specialty units within RCH that consult the service. Exposure to as many patients as possible, and dealing with as many clinical dilemmas as possible, all under appropriate supervision, will ensure proper use of the training time and learning the fundamentals of Metabolic Medicine : diagnosis, therapy, family counselling and basic genetic counselling.

Under the supervision of the consultant staff you will be responsible for :

• Inpatient care including ward rounds, ward based procedures, family meetings and discharge planning
• Consults and follow-up of investigations for in-patients referred from other services
• Outpatients with weekly follow-up clinics, new consult clinics and phone consults
• Laboratory liaison with weekly reporting sessions with reference laboratories and referring physicians
• Participation in departmental clinical and training meetings
• Weekly departmental education sessions and other continuing education activities and meetings
• Contribution to the on-call roster (shared) with consultant as back-up
• Research : trainees are encouraged to participate in research projects (discussed individually)

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• 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 meet the AHPRA English Language requirements, in order to be successful in this position._

Applications close Friday 6 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 09 May 2025