2026 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 2026 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 2026 positions

An Information Evening for prospective applicants to Victorian Basic Paediatric Training will be held on Tuesday 27 May 2025.

Further information regarding this session and Victorian Basic Paediatric Training is available on the Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Consortium (VBPTC) website: vbptc.com.au.

A recording of this information session will be available on the VBPTC website.

When:  Tuesday 27 May, 2025
Time:  6pm - 8pm
Where:  via Zoom - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84381447866
Meeting ID:  843 8144 7866
Passcode: training

Overview of JRMO positions

Applications for 2026 Junior Resident Medical Officer (JRMO) positions will open on 19 May 2025.  All JRMO positions are full time for 12 months commencing 2 February 2026.

JRMO positions are either accredited for paediatric training through the VBPTC, or unaccredited for paediatric training (also referred to as prevocational training).

Candidates can preference positions that will enter them into the Basic Paediatric Training program in either the Metropolitan Stream or the Extended Rural Stream (ERS), or positions in an unaccredited/prevocational stream.  

The Metropolitian 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 (6) 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.    

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 unaccredited/prevocational positions (the Unaccredited / Prevocational Stream) will not count towards paediatric training with the RACP.  The sample roster is also applicable to these positions. 

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.

Application Process

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for a 2026 JRMO position you must:

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

• be eligible for GENERAL medical registration in Australia by February 2026.  

Candidates already enrolled with the RACP in Basic Paediatric Training are not eligible to apply at JRMO level unless they will have completed less than 12 months of accredited paediatric training as of February 2026.

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

Applications

The application consists of three (3) parts, and all three parts must be completed within the timeframes specified for your application to be considered:

1.  Three (3) written references via the Online Reference Nomination Form;
2. Online Application Form; and
3. Application through the RCH Careers Portal (including upload of current curriculum vitae).

Part 1: Reference Reports 

You are required to nominate three (3) referees via the Online Reference Nomination Form. These referees will then be emailed directly by RCH to complete a reference report for you.

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

1.  Two (2) references from medical consultants (noting that the referee must have been a consultant when they worked with you); and

2. One (1) reference from a senior nurse (for example: Nurse Unit Manager or Nurse Practitioner). 

Please note - you must have worked with your nominated referees as a junior doctor NOT as a medical student.

You will be required to provide the following details for each referee:

1. Full name
2. Email address
3. Details of position/place of work – e.g. Consultant, Nurse Unit Manager, Nurse Practitioner, etc.

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

Applicants are encouraged to complete the Online Reference Nomination Form as soon as possible in their application process.

The Online Reference Nomination Form will be open from the 19 May to the 8 June 2025.

References will only be accepted if received before 19 June 2025 COB.

Applicants will receive a confirmation email once all three references are received.

Please nominate your referees by using the Online Referee Nomination Form:

https://forms.office.com/r/5wHn3nG3YU

Part 2: Online Application Form

The Online Application Form 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 Online Application Form.

We anticipate that this might take you up to one (1) hour to complete.

Please complete the Online Application Form via this link: https://forms.office.com/r/GXy2K5sa6m

Part 3: Apply through the RCH careers portal 

Applicants are required to submit an application through the RCH Careers Portal.

You will also be required to upload a copy of your current 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.

Timelines lication Process

Further Information

• Victorian Basic Paediatric Training Consortia (VBPTC) - Getting into the program

• VBPTC Application Guide 2026 - please see VBPTC  website