Grow your experience. Further your career. You’re welcome here.

Don’t take our word for it!

We've surveyed junior doctors to find out what they like about working here and here's what they say:

Excellent senior and junior teaching staff.
Close links with Auckland University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.
World-class research library, academic and clinical skills training facilities.
Supportive atmosphere with friendly and flexible working environments.
Wide range of specialties on one campus – loads of opportunities to learn procedures.
Friendly, helpful RMO Unit dedicated to working with you and for you.
No traffic or parking problems.
Good, cheap accommodation close to the hospital.
On average, less demand on your time after-hours and at weekends than other hospitals…
Which gives you more time to enjoy the lifestyle – restaurants, nightclubs, galleries, sports events, family activities, or enjoy the ski-fields and surf beaches in easy reach.

Check us out!

Select the icon below that fits you, and find out more – run and pay details, dates, how to apply, links to key information and websites - and some insights into working and living here.

Or scroll down to

meet our Resident Medical Officers (RMO) Unit team,
check position description guidelines
view recruitment timelines.

Link to Paul Miller's tour of the campus

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Meet the team

Our role is to recruit, roster and retain resident medical officers (RMOs) at Waikato Hospital. We coordinate the Year 1 house officer selection working within the ACE process, and we also coordinate house officer, senior house officer and registrar recruitment.

We aim to provide a friendly, accessible centre where you can call in for a chat or with questions and queries. Our 'open door' approach means you can find support and guidance on a variety of issues from your run allocations and terms of employment to meal chits and leave forms.

The current team consists of an RMO Unit manager (Paul Miller), two RMO administrators (Ripeka Harrison and Bronwyn Pipe) and a medical recruitment coordinator (Penny Simpson).

It's a busy environment at a large, complex hospital - but we will find the time and space to get to know you, help you and make you feel at home.

We are responsible for:

house officer orientation
rosters (sugical house officers, O&G SHO rosters, and all the medicine rosters)
checking Annual Practising Certificates and, in conjunction with the MCNZ, registration status
house officer run allocations
managing the surgical and medical relief pools
maintain a central repository of all RMO run descriptions
admin duties such as meal 'chits', leave forms and the monthly RMO newsletters.

Contact details:

The green boxes above link you to most of the information you will need.

But you are welcome to contact us direct to talk about specific issues or clarify things.

If you are not sure whether there is a place for you here, if we have runs that you want or whether we offer the training you're looking for, please send us an email or give us a call. We are happy to talk with you.

Paul Miller
RMO Unit Manager

Ph +64 7 839 8899
ext 23128
Mob 021 276 7952

Bronwyn Pipe
RMO Unit Administrator

Ripeka Harrison
RMO Unit Administrator

Position descriptions

Waikato DHB has a position description (PD) for each ‘run’ that an RMO works in, for year one house officers, other house officers, plus registrars.

A copy of the relevant PD should be sent to potential candidates along with their job offer letter.

Each PD is composed of three sections:

SECTION ONE

This detail the HR-component requirements of employment at Waikato DHB and the related key accountabilities eg, personal and professional development, purpose of the position, training and experience, key competencies, etc.

This section is generic for all house officer positions and generic for all registrar position

SECTION TWO

This section relates directly to clause 10 of the RMOs’ Multi Employer Collective Agreement (MECA).

It lists:

The MCNZ accredited categorisation – on the front page (and NOT to be confused with the pay scale categorisation which appears on the back pages following ‘hours of work’ and ‘salary’ details)
Clinical duties
Scheduled education and training
Daily work schedule
How assessments are to be completed
Administrative duties required of the RMO
Rostered duties and hours of work
Salary – how these hours of work relate to the run size (the MECA has set the average weekly hours worked and has graduated these from an ‘F’ category = 40-44.9 hrs to an ‘A’ category = 65+hrs). Obviously the higher the number of average hours worked per week, the higher the pay.

SECTION THREE

Appendices

‘Delegated Responsibilities of RMOs - When to Call the Consultant’
‘Run expectations and Learning Objectives’ – this is a work in progress and it is hoped this appendix will be completed for all PDs in 2012

All PDs are required to be ratified by the doctors’ union - the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA)

There are set rules around position descriptions and how and when changes can be made to these (‘Review of Run Descriptions/Salary – clause 12.0 of the RDA MECA)

2011 National recruitment timeline
28 April 2011 (NZ) and 7 May 2011 (International) Advertisements appear in media Combined advertisement for all DHB's in national paper, BMJ, AMJ, NZMJ etc.
Registrars	House Officers
Registrars close off date 13 June	House Officers close off date 27 June
	ACE, Matching ACE closing date 27 June Applications to DHBs 4 July DHB rankings to ACE centre 29 July First 'Match' 4 August Second 'Match' 1 September
Letters of offer 1 August	Letters of offer 8 August
Acceptances 8 August	Acceptances 15 August
Commencement 12 December	Commencement 28 November