WA Health — MedCareersWA (Office of the Chief Medical Officer)

Careers site · JMO recruitment page · medical workforce: medicalrecruitment@health.wa.gov.au; medcareerswa@health.wa.gov.au · what r/ausjdocs says

StateWA
TypepublicWA Department of Health (System Manager)
PlatformclinchClinch / PageUp career sites (WA, TAS, Calvary, Mater)
Modified MonashMM 1metro
Intern accreditedno
Hospitals1Statewide - all WA Health Service Providers + PEHS private partners

AGGREGATOR - single statewide portal for ALL WA medical jobs incl. the private PEHS partners. Two RMO campaigns/yr: annual (2027 opened 25 May, closed 12pm WST 22 Jun 2026, Jan start) and midyear (opens January, August start). CRAWL NOTES: job cards live behind /pages/*/blocks/ turbo-frames which robots DISALLOWS - use sitemap.xml + per-job JSON-LD at >=5s/request. Facet counts on /jobs/search are server-rendered with data-count attributes. QUIRK: numeric job URLs (/jobs/493105) return HTTP 404 while serving valid content - do not filter on status code alone. Board is near-empty outside campaign windows (~34 jobs in September).

Open doctor jobs 0

No open PGY2+ doctor jobs matched to WA Health — MedCareersWA (Office of the Chief Medical Officer) 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 June.

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

What r/ausjdocs says about WA Health — MedCareersWA (Office of the Chief Medical Officer)

31 substantive mentions from 25 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: 10 authors; 11 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

My wife is a reg and has been continually frustrated by the under and overpayments by WA Health, including having to pay back $'000s when they stuffed up her pay at 0.

u/WAHealthPayCheck · flair:new user · May 2026 · WA · comment

WA Health FYI: The full-time annual base salary rate for an intern is $82,893 to $109,650 plus $5,984 Professional Development Allowance (depending on the health site) and superannuation.

u/TazocinTDS · flair:emergency physician · Apr 2025 · WA · comment
How they recruit: 8 authors; 9 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

If I were guessing with intent, the open announcement on hiring of a bunch of overseas JMOs is a direct response and message to JMOs by WA health to the recent AMAWA agreement on defining overtime and shift length etc; there’s been a lot of chat at higher levels about how to conform to the award’s prescription, and…

u/pinchofginger · flair:anaesthetist · Jan 2025 · WA · read full

Apply for both, is the application for Ramsay separate from WA health.

u/ElectronPimp · self:rmo,self:med student · Feb 2024 · WA · comment
Feeder jobs and streams: 7 authors; 8 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

Not affiliated with the health network though, just a clearer way to see how total amount of pay errors WA Health “accidentally” make every payslip so you can decide if it’s worth losing several more hours chasing to have it corrected

u/milleneel · May 2026 · WA · comment

Having worked in WA health as a registrar I'd be pretty surprised by this, as we had to check discharge summaries before the juniors finalized them.

u/free_from_satan · self:registrar · Nov 2025 · WA · comment
Term quality and supervision: 2 authors; 2 tagged sentences; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

WA Health minister visits India and comes back with a plan to solve the doctor shortage by fast tracking 150 Indian trainee doctors who will be able to start operating on patients after six months of supervision.

u/flipgren · Jan 2025 · WA · comment

That’s what it is with WA health anyway- you have to have worked in the service for 12 consecutive months until you qualify for paid parental leave.

u/cabbagepatch1971 · Oct 2025 · WA · comment
Accommodation and rural conditions: 1 author; 1 tagged sentence; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

Red flags and praise: 1 author; 1 tagged sentence; no tally under 30

No claim reached the three-author bar.

They’ve already expressed to me that they would be happy to be a reference for an upcoming application however since then they have moved interstate and the only contact they gave me was there wa health email

u/Peastoredintheballs · May 2025 · WA · comment

In their words thin data (9 quotes; no tally under 30)

WA Health minister visits India and comes back with a plan to solve the doctor shortage by fast tracking 150 Indian trainee doctors who will be able to start operating on patients after six months of supervision.

u/flipgren · Jan 2025 · WA · comment

My wife is a reg and has been continually frustrated by the under and overpayments by WA Health, including having to pay back $'000s when they stuffed up her pay at 0.

u/WAHealthPayCheck · new user · May 2026 · WA · comment

If I were guessing with intent, the open announcement on hiring of a bunch of overseas JMOs is a direct response and message to JMOs by WA health to the recent AMAWA agreement on defining overtime and shift length etc; there’s been a lot of chat at higher levels about how to conform to the award’s prescription, and…

u/pinchofginger · anaesthetist · Jan 2025 · WA · read full

Not affiliated with the health network though, just a clearer way to see how total amount of pay errors WA Health “accidentally” make every payslip so you can decide if it’s worth losing several more hours chasing to have it corrected

u/milleneel · May 2026 · WA · comment
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Apply for both, is the application for Ramsay separate from WA health.

u/ElectronPimp · rmo · Feb 2024 · WA · comment

Having worked in WA health as a registrar I'd be pretty surprised by this, as we had to check discharge summaries before the juniors finalized them.

u/free_from_satan · registrar · Nov 2025 · WA · comment

That’s what it is with WA health anyway- you have to have worked in the service for 12 consecutive months until you qualify for paid parental leave.

u/cabbagepatch1971 · Oct 2025 · WA · comment

They’ve already expressed to me that they would be happy to be a reference for an upcoming application however since then they have moved interstate and the only contact they gave me was there wa health email

u/Peastoredintheballs · May 2025 · WA · comment

WA Health FYI: The full-time annual base salary rate for an intern is $82,893 to $109,650 plus $5,984 Professional Development Allowance (depending on the health site) and superannuation.

u/TazocinTDS · emergency physician · Apr 2025 · WA · comment

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