Opportunities

Volunteering opportunities

Explore our open opportunities to get involved at RCPCH on this listing. Many of our roles are open on an ongoing basis. Applications for Officers, committee members and some other roles are open over four-week periods.

Volunteering opportunity

Area Officer, England - volunteering opportunity

Closing date

8 June 2026

Represent the views of members in your area, help deliver RCPCH strategy and support our children and young people's engagement programme, RCPCH &Us. Recruiting for a position in the South of England.

Membership

Leadership

Volunteering opportunity

Child Protection Evidence - help develop systematic reviews

Are you a UK-based consultant or trainee paediatrician with an interest in child protection? We are seeking expert reviewers for critical appraisals and review leads.

Safeguarding

Child protection

Volunteering opportunity

Course development - get involved

We are always working on exciting initiatives to support paediatric career progression and improve care and services. We welcome your ideas for courses, webinars and eLearnings as well as participation on quality assurance.

Continuing professional development

Paediatric training

Volunteering opportunity

Course faculty with RCPCH - volunteering opportunities

We work together with our faculty - paediatricians and other child health professionals - to deliver high-quality and varied child health education for our members and other specialties.

Continuing professional development

Volunteering opportunity

CSACs - volunteering opportunities

Closing date

8 June 2026

The College Specialty Advisory Committees (CSACs) supervise the development and delivery of sub-specialty training. We have vacancies in inherited metabolic medicine, neurodisability, rheumatology and gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition .

Inherited metabolic medicine

Intensive care medicine

Neurodisability

Respiratory medicine

Paediatric sub-specialty

Paediatric training

Volunteering opportunity

Education and training - get involved

From writing questions for our assessments to being an MRCPCH Clinical examiner, supporting our trainee paediatricians to joining our course faculty... there are so many opportunities to get involved with education and training at the College!

Paediatric careers

Continuing professional development

Examinations

Mentoring

Paediatric training

Volunteering opportunity

Exam and assessment development - get involved

From question setting groups, where new questions and scenarios are generated, right through to the post-examination question review process where exam questions are reviewed and judged one final time after the exam, our clinicians and College staff ensure the quality and rigorousness of every exami...

Examinations

Volunteering opportunity

Examiners for MRCPCH and/or DCH

Medical professionals can apply to become an examiner for MRCPCH (membership exam) and DCH (Diploma of Child Health) clinical examinations. If you are interested in becoming an examiner for either exam, please see below.

Continuing professional development

Examinations

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Volunteering opportunity

Genomics programme - opportunities to get involved

Genomics has the potential to change our approaches to paediatric healthcare. We invite you to hear more about our work in this area as well as opportunities to get involved.

Genomics

Research

Volunteering opportunity

Global Links programme - volunteering opportunities

The success of our work relies heavily on fostering partnerships between clinicians in high, middle and low income countries. We recruit and prepare doctors, nurses and midwives who help us in all aspects of programme delivery, usually through longer-term placements overseas in the Global Links prog...

Global child health

Volunteering