General Paediatric Fellow - Hutt Hospital 2027

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General Paediatric Fellow, Hutt Hospital
Full‑time | 1‑Year Fixed‑Term

We invite applications for a General Paediatric Fellow to join our friendly and supportive Child Health Service at Hutt Hospital for a 12‑month fixed‑term role. This position is ideally suited to trainees in the latter stages of Advanced Training who are preparing for the transition to consultant practice.

Hutt Hospital is a busy regional hospital serving the Hutt Valley community. The paediatric service provides comprehensive general paediatric care across inpatient, outpatient, and acute settings, and is known for its warm collegial culture and supportive supervision of trainees.

The role offers broad general paediatrics experience, with opportunities to contribute to teaching, mentoring, audit, and research within a collaborative multidisciplinary team, along with supported participation in the SMO on‑call roster. There are specialty services that the trainee could chose to work in including adolescent medicine, child development and paediatric rheumatology.

The full time position offers a mix of:

• General paediatric and gateway outpatient clinics. Opportunity to tailor clinical interest to child development, adolescent medicine or paediatric rheumatology.
• Acute assessment and inpatient management during ward and neonatal acute weeks
• Supported participation in the SMO on‑call roster
• Leadership and mentorship – guiding RMOs and contributing to service development
• Teaching of medical students and junior medical staff including those preparing for RACP examinations
• Participation in audits, research, and clinical governance activities – dedicated time for advanced training project included.
• Attendance and contribution to departmental clinical meetings

Applicants must be eligible for MCNZ registration and have completed FRACP written and clinical exams.  The position is currently accredited for 12 months of advanced paediatric training.

For further information regarding this position, please contact:

Dr Nick Reid on Nicholas.reid@huttvalleydhb.org.nz

Experience and Eligibility

Suitable for Resident Medical Officers who are advanced trainees in Paediatrics. You must have eligibility for general or provisional general registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand.

Information on the process of application for this can be found on the NZ Medical Council website: hhttp://www.mcnz.org.nz/ or http://www.mcnz.org.nz/get-registered/registration-self-assessment-tool/

You will need to be a NZ or Australian citizen or resident, or have an appropriate visa to be eligible to live and work in NZ.

About us

You will love working with Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley District, as you will have exposure to our regional hospitals and consider the possibility of Rural attachments without having to leave the region.

As we are a large employer and include a tertiary hospital, there are vast career progression opportunities available due to the high number of Registrar positions and wide range of specialties across the region. We also ensure that formal and informal teaching sessions are available to all of our RMO’s.

Join our fellow Resident Medical Officers employed by the 3 hospitals in the Wellington Region (Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa) to gain leading experience, medical supervision and training.

How to apply

Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa region hospitals are Equal Opportunity Employers (EOE) and we acknowledge and celebrate the importance of our people, diverse experiences, talents and cultures that they bring to work with them. We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application to assist you through the recruitment process.  Interviews will be offered to eligible candidates.

Applications close 11.59pm (NZ time) Monday, 8^th June 2026.

Offers will be made once all applications have been processed and finalised.

You may also be interested in our other paediatric vocational training positions in our region, which you can find with the following links:

• Senior Paediatric Fellow Wellington Hospital 
• Rural Paediatric Fellow Wairarapa
• Neonatal Fellow, Wellington NICU 

Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai
By joining together we will succeed

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