A well‑structured CV helps us understand your qualifications and experience. For guidance on what to include and how to format your CV, see the How to apply – CV.

Creating your CV

You are required to complete a statement that clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience make you capable and suitable for the position you are applying for.

The selection criteria will be attached with the advertised position on MedCareersWA during the application period. You need to address each of the criteria for the position or positions that you with to preference.

The word limit for each selection criterion is up to 500 words.

Selection Criteria

When submitting your application, a cover letter is optional unless specifically stated in the advertisement. A well‑written cover letter gives you the opportunity to highlight your relevant skills, experience and motivation for the role. 

How to write your cover letter

• You may choose to upload up to two recent End of Term Assessment Forms and/or WRIG‑30s with your application to help demonstrate your suitability for the position (if you are currently employed by an Australian health service). 
• Any forms you upload must be current. This means they should be from your most recent term rotations, or from terms completed within the last six months.
• WRIG‑30s are work performance reports for international medical graduates who hold limited or provisional registration with the Medical Board of Australia.

• Yes. Your cover letter provides a good opportunity to highlight information you have not covered in your selection criteria responses. Also, make sure to include any details of your preferred part-time work (days, hours) in your cover letter.
• If applying to St John of God Health Care (SJGHC), please indicate in your cover letter your preferred SJGHC hospital site (Midland Public and Private Hospitals, Murdoch Hospital or Subiaco Hospital). 
• If applying to WACHS, the information in the cover letter is essential to assist the selection panel to understand your ideal location within WACHS, whether you have specific requirements about full-time or part-time work, and whether you are applying with a partner. This will allow WACHS to offer you the options which are most aligned with your professional and personal needs. 
• WACHS also need to know if you have any rural bonding commitments

• Focus on addressing your first preference, however, it may be worth mentioning the reason for your subsequent preferences.

• No. You do not need notarised copies of documents to apply for this recruitment process.

• You must nominate two professional referees.
• Some recruitment processes have specific requirements. For example, the centralised RMO/SMR campaign requires at least one referee must be a recent clinical supervisor who has supervised you within the past 12 months.

• You should contact your referees before submitting your application to confirm that they agree to provide a confidential referee report.
• Referees will only be contacted after applications close, during the assessment and selection phase.
• Make sure your referees are available during this period and that their email addresses are correct, as delays or missing reports may affect your application.

✅ Tip: Double‑check referee email addresses before submitting your application.

• If suitable referee reports are not received in time, this may negatively impact the assessment of your application and could result in you not being considered for an offer.

• Detailed guidance on selecting referees and managing referee reports is available in the How to apply section of this website.
• Applicants are strongly encouraged to review this information before submitting their application.

For specific recruitment processes, please also ensure you meet the specific referee requirements outlined in the application information, as failure to obtain suitable referee reports in time may affect the assessment of your application.

• If you are assessed as suitable, you will be placed into the recruitment pool and notified by email.
• Being placed in the pool is not a job offer. It means you are eligible to be considered for employment by participating employers.

• Applicants who are assessed as not suitable for the recruitment pool will also be notified by email.
• Your notification letter will include contact details if you wish to seek feedback about your application or the selection process.

• Yes. If you are assessed as not suitable, you may discuss your application with the employer that reviewed it.
• The contact details for requesting feedback will be included in your notification letter.

• Under the Public Sector Management (Breaches of Public Sector Standards) Regulations 2005, you may lodge a breach claim if you believe an Employment Standard has been breached and you have been adversely affected.
• Further information about the Employment Standards and the breach process is available at www.publicsector.wa.gov.au

• Employers make offers to suitable applicants from the recruitment pool.
• Offer notification emails will include:
  • • the employing health service
    • contract duration and dates
    • type of employment
• All offers are sent to the email address listed in your MedCareersWA profile.

• You can check the status of your application and respond to offers online through MedCareersWA.

• Your offer notification email will include an expiry date and time, which is typically four days from the time the offer is issued.
• If you do not respond by the deadline, the offer will be automatically forfeited, and your application will return to the recruitment pool.
• There is no guarantee that a forfeited offer will be reissued or that further offers will be made.

• Applicants who remain in the suitable pool but do not receive an offer will be notified by email when the recruitment process closes.

• If you ACCEPT an offer, the employer is notified and your application is no longer available in the suitable pool.  
• You will not receive any further offers of employment from this process. 

• If you DECLINE an offer, the employer is notified, and your application will be returned to the suitable pool or removed from the pool depending on your selected response to the offer email.  
• If you wish to be considered for further offers, your application will be returned to the suitable pool for consideration as vacancies arise.
• Please note that there is no guarantee you will receive another offer. 

• If you do not respond to an offer by the deadline, the offer becomes void and is assumed to be declined.
• If you miss the deadline but wish to accept the offer, please contact the employer’s medical workforce team as soon as possible to discuss. 

• Some positions are highly sought-after, and the selection process is very competitive.  
• If you are unsuccessful in gaining an offer from your first preference hospital/position, your application will be considered by all participating health services. 
• If you have received an email indicating you are ‘suitable’, your first preference employer will then determine if they will offer you a position at their site.  
• The employer’s decision may be based on the following:
  • Number of vacancies available at the site
  • Speciality criteria required to work at their site (e.g. speciality sites such as PCH, KEMH & WACHS)
  • Secondary assessment processes, e.g. interviews with the employer.

• Once an offer is accepted, the next step is for the employer to send you the conditional contract paperwork.
• Any further enquiries regarding offers should be directed to your employer’s medical workforce team. 
• It is essential that you accept your offer online via MedCareersWA AND formally respond to any notification sent to you by the employer.

Congratulations! Thank you for doing the right thing by your peers who now may receive an offer in your place. Please contact medicalrecruitment@health.wa.gov.au who will provide you with the next steps.