Fellow - Corneal - Melbourne, Australia - The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital

Description

The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is a world class specialist hospital in eye and ear care providing services across Victoria. As Australia's only specialist eye, ear, nose and throat hospital, the Eye and Ear has been providing care for the senses for over 160 years. The Eye and Ear has almost 90 different outpatient clinics for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of vision and hearing loss and provides a 24-hour emergency eye and ear, nose and throat service. Every year the Eye and Ear cares for nearly 200,000 patients, with over 136,000 outpatients, over 42,000 emergency patients and over 14,000 inpatients. The hospital recently completed a major redevelopment to create a modern internal structure and to improve access for patients, visitors and staff.

Our Vision

We will inspire and advance specialist eye and ENT care

Our Mission

We improve health and wellbeing outcomes through excellence in:

1. Clinical Care

2. Teaching

3. Education

4. Research

5. Innovation

Our Values - Integrity, Inclusive and Accessible Care, Collaboration, Excellence

TWO Fellowships available:

1. February 2025 to February months)

2. August 2025 to August months)

Each Cornea Fellowship provides comprehensive training in the fields of cornea and eye banking. Fellows will have substantial exposure to the diagnosis and medical management of corneal and ocular surface conditions, corneal transplantation surgery, corneal cross-linking and excimer laser surgery.

There are two main consulting clinics each week with up to eight consultant staff attending. In addition, there are weekly keratoconus and fellows' clinics and a monthly combined corneal/ocular immunology/oculo-plastics clinic. There is one supervised cornea theatre list per week per Fellow, in addition to a fortnightly fellow's list, cross-linking/ excimer list and treatment room list. Each Fellow participates in a 1 in 2 on-call roster for the Cornea Unit and is expected to take part in research and audit activities. In addition to sub-specialist clinics and theatres, Fellows will be rostered to shifts in our specialised Emergency Department. This is an excellent opportunity to maintain general ophthalmology skills, at the same time as providing a valuable educational resource to other medical staff working within the Department.

Please arrange to include your surgical log book as part of your application. (Requirement)

Salary and conditions of employment will be in accordance with the Australian Medical Association (Victoria) Doctors-in-Training Agreement

The Eye and Ear is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a work environment free from harassment or discrimination and to promoting cultural diversity and awareness in the workplace.

The Eye and Ear is a smoke free environment.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.

At The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, we are committed to supporting people with disability to gain employment and develop their careers; we encourage you to apply. If you would like further information about this role, please contact the hiring manager.

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, a working with children check (if applicable) and evidence of vaccination status. All staff must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (3 doses) and for clinical staff, patient facing staff and staff working in clinical areas, it is a mandatory requirement to provide evidence of a current influenza vaccination.

Please click on the links to the following documents:

Medical Staff Application Form: Junior Medical Staff Application form

Application Guidelines: Application Guidelines for Junior Medical Staff – click here

Position Description: Cornea Ophthalmology Fellowship

For further information please contact or telephone the JMS Coordinator on

APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 27/05/2024