What are these?
A number of hospitals have joined together to offer their positions together. This allows trainees to obtain rotations together in the one offer - taking the effort out of trying to apply to multiple health services and hope that your training needs are met. These positions are 12 or 24 month positions.
Can I do these positions part-time or in a job-share?
- For some positions this may be possible. Please contact each health service to find out whether part-time and/or job-share partners will be considered.
Contact
- Please contact each site within the combination position as listed on their respective page.
How do these work?
- If you are offered a Combination (paired) position then you will receive separate contracts from each of the health services for the rotations. These are not usually secondment positions and therefore accommodation and other entitlements are as per direct-appointments to each health service.
- Please note that a combination position is only listed ONCE in the preferencing list - and may be offered in either order (as there are always at least 2 positions available) unless the combination includes a rural position (in which case they are listed twice in the preferencing list to ensure you can apply to the rural rotation in the part of the year you require)
- Don't see the combination you are interested in?
- You may do separate preferences for 1st 6 months and for 2nd 6 months - but please be aware that these are offered in EITHER ORDER if they are both in metro or outer-metro locations. This is done to ensure we can offer candidates their highest preference roles
- Also please be aware that preferences listed in 1st 6 months and 2nd 6 months are NOT linked. You might get your 1st preference in one rotation period, and your 6th preference in your other rotation.
- Do not preference rural sites in both 1st and 2nd terms unless you are genuinely prepared to work at 2 different rural sites within the year. Rural rotations will be offered in the rotation period they have been preferenced in (ie 1st 6 months or 2nd 6 months) as we know it requires some planning to do your rural term. If you don't mind if it's 1st 6 months or 2nd 6 months and instead want to be offered your highest preference rural location in either rotation period - then please email us to let us know! vpat.recruitment@gmail.com
Please remember that most of the rural sites are able to offer you both Gen Paeds and Community/Developmental if you accept a 12 month position in Gen Paeds - this does not require you to find a combination job - just preference it as Gen Paeds and then apply to the College requesting both Gen Paeds and D&P time. You will also concurrently tick off the rural component.