Community Epilepsy Registrar

Successful candidates will be required to commence on Monday 13th July 2026.

The Clinical Epilepsy Fellow post was established in CUH in 2014.

The fellow is involved in all aspects of epilepsy care including weekly clinics (1st seizure and Complex Epilepsy), working in an epilepsy monitoring unit, pre-surgical assessments, interpretation of video-EEG data, outreach epilepsy clinics in residential care settings and participating in epilepsy-orientated research. The fellow will work closely with trained epileptologists, clinical neurophysiologists and clinical neurologists. The post is fully assigned to provision of epilepsy care. Numerous educational opportunities will be offered to the fellow during the year, including participating in VIREPA courses and attendance at epilepsy conferences. There is no on-call commitment. Previous fellows have been research active resulting in published peer-reviewed papers and higher degrees.

Please note that positions may be filled by the relevant training body.

The newly established HSE South West health region w ill manage and deliver all public health and social care services in:

• Cork
• Kerry

More than 700,000 people live in this region.

HSE South West includes all hospital and community healthcare services in the region. This includes:

• South / South West Hospital Group
• Cork Kerry Community Healthcare

The Department of Population and Public Health, HSE South West is also now aligned with this health region.

HSE South / South West Hospital Group:

The South/ South West Hospital Group (S/SWHG) has responsibility for the provision of acute hospital care for the population across Cork and Kerry.

The S/SWHG consists of 5 statutory hospitals and 2 voluntary hospitals.

• Bantry General Hospital (BGH)
• Cork University Hospital (CUH)
• Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH)
• Mallow General Hospital (MGH)
• University Hospital Kerry (UHK)
• Mercy University Hospital (MUH) - Voluntary Hospital
• South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital (SIVUH) - Voluntary Hospital

The two voluntary hospitals in the Group are funded by the HSE as Section 38 agencies under the Health Act 2004:

The primary academic partner for the Group is University College Cork (UCC) and, together with our Higher Education Institute of Technology in Cork, plays an important role in developing and improving academic teaching, research and innovation to drive improved health for the population in the S/SWHG.