Registrar opportunities

SMHS employs medical and surgical trainees and service registrars, trainee psychiatrists, trainee medical administrators, trainee public health physicians, and senior registrars.

With tertiary/quaternary, general hospital and country locations, and more than 50 specialties, SMHS offers a large range of registrar opportunities, including:

  • acute medicine
  • acute surgery
  • ALERT
  • anaesthetics
  • breast
  • burns
  • cardiology
  • cardiothoracic surgery
  • dermatology
  • emergency medicine
  • endocrinology
  • ENT
  • gastroenterology
  • general medicine
  • general surgery
  • geriatric medicine
  • haematology
  • hand surgery
  • hyperbaric
  • immunology
  • infectious diseases
  • intensive care
  • medical oncology
  • nephrology
  • neurology
  • neurosurgery
  • nuclear medicine
  • obstetrics and gynaecology
  • oncology
  • ophthalmology
  
  • orthopaedics
  • pain medicine
  • palliative care
  • plastics
  • psychiatry
  • radiology
  • rehabilitation
  • respiratory medicine
  • rheumatology
  • sexual health
  • transplant
  • upper GI
  • urology.

 

 

Registrar career pathways are coordinated by our Medical Workforce team. Working in collaboration with medical/surgical colleges, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), specialties, and our medical officers, we seek to provide our registrars with learning, experience and study opportunities to grow and achieve their specialty recognition goals.

Registrars are provided with education and professional development opportunities, clinical training from our dedicated Medical Education team, and excellent clinical supervision.

The wellbeing of our workforce is central to our vision, and our endeavours include:

  • an ongoing roster review project
  • regular doctor in training - executive forums
  • a fatigue management strategy
  • the recent recruitment of one of our senior clinical leaders into the new Chief Wellbeing Practitioner role to lead the evolving multidisciplinary Wellbeing Unit.

Our RMOs are provided with education and professional development opportunities, clinical training and further wellbeing support from our dedicated Medical Education team, and excellent clinical supervision.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from Aboriginal people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ people and people with disability.

If you’re located in other parts of Australia or overseas, you’re encouraged to follow in the footsteps of many of our registrars who have decided to make WA their home. Read about the recently updated relocation incentives available via the Belong campaign (external site), which applies to experienced interstate and international registrars relocating to WA and has been extended to 30 June 2024. Find information for prospective applicants/employees (external site).

Our staff will tell you that they are now not only working in a field that challenges and fulfils them, but that they are do so in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. Hear from our international team members in the video below:

Registrars interested in emergency medicine, general medicine, geriatrics, obstetrics, or mental health careers, should make contact as opportunities arise throughout the year and our services are expanding significantly over the next 12–24 months.

Learn more about mental health careers at SMHS in the short video below:

If you have a query regarding employment with us as a registrar, or looking for employment now, please send an email to email us for a confidential discussion.

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Last Updated: 17/05/2024