NSW Health — statewide intern & JMO recruitment (HETI / MoH)

Careers site · JMO recruitment page · medical workforce: HETI-Internship@health.nsw.gov.au / (02) 9844 6562; HETI-info@health.nsw.gov.au / (02) 9844 6551; HETI-Accreditation@health.nsw.gov.au · what r/ausjdocs says

StateNSW
TypepublicNSW Ministry of Health / HETI
Platformtaleo
Remotenessmetro
Intern accreditedyes
Hospitals1Statewide: 15 LHDs + SCHN + SVHN + Justice Health + Calvary Mater Newcastle + Albury Wodonga Health (Albury campus)

AGGREGATOR, not an employer. Two annual funnels: (1) HETI Medical Intern Recruitment (PGY1) via MIRA - one application ranks all 15 Prevocational Training Networks; pathways = Optimised Allocation, Direct Regional Allocation, Rural Preferential Recruitment; (2) Annual JMO campaign (PGY2+): early round from 4 May 2026, main round 14 Jul - 16 Aug 2026, second round from 29 Sep 2026. Entry points /JMO-ex (external) and /JMO-int (internal). Per-employer sub-paths: /{cclhd,fwlhd,hnelhd,islhd,mlhd,mnclhd,nbmlhd,nnswlhd,nslhd,seslhd,slhd,snswlhd,swslhd,wnswlhd,wslhd,schn,jhfmhn,nswa,nswhp,moh,aho,aci,bhi,cec,cinsw,heti,ehealth,hi,hssg,healthshare,sdpr}. SEPARATE ATS WARNING: staff specialist/VMO ads run on iworkfor.nsw.gov.au via eCredential - SMO-only, filter them out.

Open doctor jobs 0

No open PGY2+ doctor jobs matched to NSW Health — statewide intern & JMO recruitment (HETI / MoH) right now.

No closed history matched either: either this employer's portal is not scraped yet or its ads print under a name we do not match. Main campaigns for 2027 closed in August.

Matched by employer and hospital name (2 terms), hospital town and platform tenant within NSW; ads printed under a parent body may be missing and similar-named neighbours may leak in. Interns hidden.

What r/ausjdocs says about NSW Health — statewide intern & JMO recruitment (HETI / MoH)

773 substantive mentions from 459 authors, 2022–2026, hand-read by theme. Community view, not policy; stance splits only at n ≥ 30; a claim under three authors is a single report, not a verdict. Retrieved 12 Sept 2026.

Overtime and pay-claim culture: 228 authors; 11 cautionary, 1 positive, 370 neutral or mixed (n=382)
Overtime is unpaid, discouraged or fought over 15 supporting · 3 contradicting comment ↗ 2 ↗
Overtime is claimable and actually paid 8 supporting · 0 contradicting comment ↗ 2 ↗

And not nsw health that is happy to oversee half our psychiatrists resigning, healthcare workers fleeing to other states, refuse to pay us a fair wage etc

u/crank_pedal · flair:critical care reg · Apr 2025 · NSW · comment

Get paid fat locum rates until burnout appears on the horizon, then take your well-deserved break from NSW Health.

u/DoctorSpaceStuff · self:locum · Dec 2024 · NSW · comment

The ASMOF’s prosecution of NSW Health for unpaid overtime and unpaid missed meal breaks, and the class action, is going to trial in May.

u/LTQLD · Feb 2024 · NSW · comment
How they recruit: 98 authors; 6 cautionary, 0 positive, 129 neutral or mixed (n=135)

No claim reached the three-author bar.

As such I think the NSW health offer of a 0% pay increase is much more attractive than what psychiatrists could otherwise get including this one for one million dollars for telehealth in Queensland.

u/Lower-Newspaper-2874 · Dec 2024 · NSW · comment

The problem here is that NSW Health has been struggling to hire psychiatrists because any psychiatrist who works for them is plunged into understaffed, poorly-resourced working conditions - and they’re being paid a pittance relative to the vast majority of other psychiatry jobs across Australia.

u/admirallordnelson · Jan 2025 · NSW · comment

The nsw health recruitment application site was honestly the 2nd worst website i’ve ever interacted with.

u/em-puzzleduck · Sept 2025 · NSW · comment
Feeder jobs and streams: 65 authors; 1 cautionary, 0 positive, 83 neutral or mixed (n=84)

No claim reached the three-author bar.

One of my psychiatry registrar friends made these to explain the current NSW Health crisis.

u/lepidoptera454 · flair:ophthal reg · Jan 2025 · NSW · comment

NSW health is just a training network at the end of the day.

u/Ungaaa · self:private psych consultant · July 2024 · NSW · comment
Term quality and supervision: 52 authors; 4 cautionary, 0 positive, 55 neutral or mixed (n=59)
Service-heavy; teaching or supervision is thin 1 supporting · 0 contradicting · single report comment ↗

From June, NSW Health will meet regularly with ASMOF and the Health Services Union to develop additional standards, controls and strategies to support fatigue management for JMOs, the spokesperson said.

u/bangetron · May 2026 · NSW · comment

The NSW health act is probably the worst Mental Health Act in Australia in terms of human rights as it is very easy to detain someone and the "soon as practical" clause to await for assessment by a psychiatrist lends itself to long periods of time without specialist assessment which is mighty handy for times such as…

u/Different-Corgi468 · flair:psychiatrist · Jan 2025 · NSW · read full

Even in the most supportive departments I have never been able to claim journal club or other educational activities as overtime (NSW health).

u/Chribird99 · May 2025 · NSW · comment
Red flags and praise: 28 authors; 16 cautionary, 0 positive, 19 neutral or mixed (n=35)
Culture reported as toxic / bullying 5 supporting · 0 contradicting comment ↗ 2 ↗
Chronically understaffed 1 supporting · 0 contradicting · single report comment ↗

It also interferes with your training by limiting educational opportunities, and prevents you from immersing yourself within the surgical culture as you’ll constantly feel like an outsider- all of which are strictly against nsw health core values.

u/crank_pedal · self:reformed set trainee,flair:critical care reg · Sept 2025 · NSW · comment

We’ve warned NSW Health for 18 months - about burnout, unsafe staffing & systemic neglect.

u/Key-Computer3379 · Apr 2025 · NSW · comment

But on top of the salary you do also get the benefit of toxic NSW health admin so there’s that… 🤷‍♀️

u/AussieFIdoc · flair:anaesthetist · Jan 2026 · NSW · comment
Accommodation and rural conditions: 17 authors; 17 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

One agency said NSW Health was offering increased “crisis” rates of up to $3050 a day as well as accommodation and travel allowances to locum psychiatrists willing to fill the vacancies from mid-January.

u/BPTisforme · Dec 2024 · NSW · comment

This agreement made between the Union and employer allowed for the changes to the Award which led to the inclusion of emergency physicians as shift workers with penalty rates into the agreement and an ancillary NSW Health policy which brought in the 25% special allowance.

u/tallyhoo123 · flair:emergency physician · Feb 2025 · NSW · comment
Exam pass-rate claims (hearsay): 12 authors; 26 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

To the doctors working in management who passed on the threats from the nsw health ministry: Fuck you.

u/OudSmoothie · flair:psychiatrist · Apr 2025 · NSW · comment

Typical successful application in NSW would have HETI westmead physics course, something showing competence in anatomy (doing well in GSSE would probably count), and some time working in radiology (could be IR/INR or nuke med SRMO).

u/PettyIncarnate · flair:rad reg · Mar 2026 · NSW · comment
When you usually hear: 3 authors; 3 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

You then prepare your CV + selection criteria answers and apply for a BPT job sometime in June (jobs offers are published on the jobs nsw health website).

u/TypeIII-RTA · self:bpt,self:locum,flair:pgy5 (med reg/jaded medical officer) · Jan 2026 · NSW · comment

If the second round of positions in NSW health starts on Oct 3 and close in January then when do job offers come out?

u/Beneficial_Air_896 · flair:intern · Sept 2023 · NSW · comment

When you usually hear

Comments that said this employer opened, interviewed, offered or rejected on a date (the date the poster gave, or when they posted).

Show 4 earlier reports
  • 17 Aug 2024interview invitesMe and a number of my friends applying AT jobs in NSW health needed to do the checkstar before our interview dates though?
  • 3 Dec 2023offersWhere to find formal offer letter for NSW health
  • 1 Nov 2023offersThere’s a lack of incentive and if the offer is out to earn far more working for NSW health, and in the long run, likely far less stress, of course GP will not…
  • 27 Sept 2023offersIf the second round of positions in NSW health starts on Oct 3 and close in January then when do job offers come out?

In their words thin data (19 quotes; no tally under 30)

One of my psychiatry registrar friends made these to explain the current NSW Health crisis.

u/lepidoptera454 · ophthal reg · Jan 2025 · NSW · comment

Get paid fat locum rates until burnout appears on the horizon, then take your well-deserved break from NSW Health.

u/DoctorSpaceStuff · locum · Dec 2024 · NSW · comment

And not nsw health that is happy to oversee half our psychiatrists resigning, healthcare workers fleeing to other states, refuse to pay us a fair wage etc

u/crank_pedal · critical care reg · Apr 2025 · NSW · comment

We’ve warned NSW Health for 18 months - about burnout, unsafe staffing & systemic neglect.

u/Key-Computer3379 · Apr 2025 · NSW · comment
Show all 19 quotes

As such I think the NSW health offer of a 0% pay increase is much more attractive than what psychiatrists could otherwise get including this one for one million dollars for telehealth in Queensland.

u/Lower-Newspaper-2874 · Dec 2024 · NSW · comment

The problem here is that NSW Health has been struggling to hire psychiatrists because any psychiatrist who works for them is plunged into understaffed, poorly-resourced working conditions - and they’re being paid a pittance relative to the vast majority of other psychiatry jobs across Australia.

u/admirallordnelson · Jan 2025 · NSW · comment

From June, NSW Health will meet regularly with ASMOF and the Health Services Union to develop additional standards, controls and strategies to support fatigue management for JMOs, the spokesperson said.

u/bangetron · May 2026 · NSW · comment

The ASMOF’s prosecution of NSW Health for unpaid overtime and unpaid missed meal breaks, and the class action, is going to trial in May.

u/LTQLD · Feb 2024 · NSW · comment

It also interferes with your training by limiting educational opportunities, and prevents you from immersing yourself within the surgical culture as you’ll constantly feel like an outsider- all of which are strictly against nsw health core values.

u/crank_pedal · reformed set trainee · Sept 2025 · NSW · comment

But on top of the salary you do also get the benefit of toxic NSW health admin so there’s that… 🤷‍♀️

u/AussieFIdoc · anaesthetist · Jan 2026 · NSW · comment

One agency said NSW Health was offering increased “crisis” rates of up to $3050 a day as well as accommodation and travel allowances to locum psychiatrists willing to fill the vacancies from mid-January.

u/BPTisforme · Dec 2024 · NSW · comment

The nsw health recruitment application site was honestly the 2nd worst website i’ve ever interacted with.

u/em-puzzleduck · Sept 2025 · NSW · comment

To the doctors working in management who passed on the threats from the nsw health ministry: Fuck you.

u/OudSmoothie · psychiatrist · Apr 2025 · NSW · comment

The NSW health act is probably the worst Mental Health Act in Australia in terms of human rights as it is very easy to detain someone and the "soon as practical" clause to await for assessment by a psychiatrist lends itself to long periods of time without specialist assessment which is mighty handy for times such as…

u/Different-Corgi468 · psychiatrist · Jan 2025 · NSW · read full

NSW health is just a training network at the end of the day.

u/Ungaaa · private psych consultant · July 2024 · NSW · comment

Even in the most supportive departments I have never been able to claim journal club or other educational activities as overtime (NSW health).

u/Chribird99 · May 2025 · NSW · comment

This agreement made between the Union and employer allowed for the changes to the Award which led to the inclusion of emergency physicians as shift workers with penalty rates into the agreement and an ancillary NSW Health policy which brought in the 25% special allowance.

u/tallyhoo123 · emergency physician · Feb 2025 · NSW · comment

Typical successful application in NSW would have HETI westmead physics course, something showing competence in anatomy (doing well in GSSE would probably count), and some time working in radiology (could be IR/INR or nuke med SRMO).

u/PettyIncarnate · rad reg · Mar 2026 · NSW · comment

If the second round of positions in NSW health starts on Oct 3 and close in January then when do job offers come out?

u/Beneficial_Air_896 · intern · Sept 2023 · NSW · comment

All employers · all NSW jobs · community rows are hand-read from pipeline/knowledge/community/employers.json; no AI wrote any of it.