2025 Junior Resident Medical Officer (JRMO) Positions24 Junior Resident Medical Officer position

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne is a leading provider of specialist public health services for children and adolescents and is the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, caring for children from Tasmania and southern New South Wales as well as other states around Australia and overseas. We welcome applications for 2025 Junior Resident Medical Officer Positions and 2025 entry in Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Registrar Positions.

The Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Consortium (VBPTC) oversees basic paediatric training across a network of two primary training programs based at the RCH and Monash Children’s Hospital (MCH), and a total of sixteen outer metropolitan, regional and rural adjunct training program sites. Trainees will be exposed to a full range of clinical services provided in the care of children and their families.

In order to become a Basic Paediatric Trainee (BPT) with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), trainees must first secure an accredited position. Trainees can potentially enter BPT as either a: 

• Junior Resident Medical Officer (JRMO); 
• Senior Resident Medical officer (SRMO); or 
• Rotating Registrar; or
• Consortium Registrar  

Entry into Victorian Basic Paediatric Training – Information Evening for 2025 positions

An Information Evening for prospective applicants to Victorian Basic Paediatric Training will be held on Tuesday 21 May 2024.

Further information regarding this session and Victorian Basic Paediatric Training is available on the Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Consortium Website: vbptc.com.au. A recording of this information session will be available on the VBPTC website.

When: Tuesday 21 May, 2024
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Where: Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84660632770
Meeting ID: 846 6063 2770
Passcode: info

Junior Resident Medical Officer (JRMO) positions for the 2025 clinical training year

Applications for 2025 Junior Resident Medical Officer (JRMO) positions will open on 21 May 2024. All JRMO positions are full time for 12 months commencing 3 February 2025.

JRMO positions are either accredited for paediatric training through the Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Consortium, or unaccredited for paediatric training (also referred to as prevocational training). Candidates can preference positions that will enter them into the Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Program in either the Metropolitan Stream (MS) or the Extended Rural Stream (ERS), or positions in an unaccredited/prevocational stream.  

The Metropolitan Stream is predominantly based in inner and outer metropolitan Melbourne centres, integrated with some regional and rural rotations.  You can view a sample roster.  

The Extended Rural Stream allows six trainees to complete 18 months of the requisite 36 months of Basic Training predominantly in either eastern, northern, or western rural and regional Victoria, integrated with some metropolitan Melbourne rotations. This is especially encouraged for applicants who are interested in pursuing a long-term paediatric career in regional and rural Victoria.    

Unaccredited/Prevocational Stream – in addition to accredited training positions, the RCH offers JRMO positions that are suitable for anyone wishing to have experience in a paediatric setting outside of a college training program (e.g. for anyone planning on doing General Practice or Paediatric Surgery or anyone simply wanting to ascertain if Paediatrics is the right career for them). These positions are unaccredited/prevocational and will not count towards paediatric training with the RACP. The sample roster is also applicable to these positions. 

From 2025, unaccredited/prevocational positions at PGY2 level will be subject to the requirements of the new AMC Framework for Prevocational Medical Training.

The application form will ask you to rank your preferences for the streams described above. Please note that there are a finite number of accredited JRMO positions, so please include the ‘unaccredited/prevocational’ stream in your preferences if you would like to be considered for this stream if you are not successful with an accredited position. Further details regarding these streams will be available in the Application Guide.

The RCH and the VBPTC join with the Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP) in recognising a core responsibility to grow the Indigenous physician workforce. RCH is committed to employing Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander doctor/s to enter the Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Program at BPT1 (JRMO) level.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for a 2025 JRMO position you must:

• have successfully completed your intern year (or equivalent); AND  

• be eligible for GENERAL medical registration in Australia by February 2025.  
  

For further details regarding General registration, please refer to the Medical Board of Australia. 

Application process

Applications open on 21 May 2024 and close on 9 June 2024.

Further details regarding the application documents required are available in the Application Guide.

Applicants successfully shortlisted for interview (conducted virtually) will be notified in early July, with interviews to be held 10 – 26 July 2024.

Further details regarding the interview will be provided to candidates who are successfully shortlisted for interview.  All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by mid-late August.

How to apply

The application consists of three (3) parts. 

1. Online application form, and 
2. Application through the RCH Careers Portal including your curriculum vitae, and 
3. Three (3) written references using the RCH reference template. Please note, two (2) references must be from consultants and one (1) from a senior nurse.  The applicant must have worked with their referee as a junior doctor (i.e. not as a medical student).

Part 1: Online application form 

The online application must be completed in one sitting as there is no option to save and return to the application.

It is suggested that you have a copy of your curriculum vitae as a reference when you are completing the application.

We anticipate that this might take you up to an hour to complete.  

Part 2: Apply through the RCH careers portal 

Applicants are required to submit an application through the RCH Careers portal, including a curriculum vitae.  

Curriculum vitae (CV) requirements:

• Maximum length 4 pages 
• No photo/headshot
  

PLEASE NOTE: the RCH careers portal requires mandatory upload of a cover letter despite this not being an application requirement.  Please 'double upload' your CV to the cover letter section.

Part 3: Written references 

Written references are required to use the RCH reference template. Reference forms must clearly indicate the candidate’s name. 

Three (3) references are required for a complete application:

• Two (2) from consultants (referees must have been a consultant when they worked with you); and 
• One (1) from a senior nurse (for example: Nurse Unit Manager or Nurse Practitioner).   

Applicants must ensure all referees are aware that they may be contacted by RCH staff (via telephone) during the recruitment process. 

Applicants may contact RCH MWU to confirm receipt of their references. Referees are welcome to submit their completed references before the candidate has submitted their online application.   

References must be sent directly to the RCH MWU by email: mwu.enquiries@rch.org.au

Timelines 

• For all Junior Resident Medical Officer positions
• For entry into the Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Program at Registrar Level
  

Further information

• Online application form: https://forms.office.com/r/aJen7vvPc3
• Success Factors Application Link
  
• RCH Referee Report 2024
• Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Consortia (VBPTC) - Getting into the program
• VBPTC Application Guide 2025 - please see VBPTC  website