Opportunities

Volunteering opportunities

Explore our current opportunities and find a role that suits your interests and experience. Filter by topic, role or membership type, or search for a specific opportunity. Some roles are advertised periodically and may not always be open for applications.

Volunteering opportunity

Angoff Judges

We invite members who have completed the MRCPCH to take part in Angoff standard setting meetings to set the standards for our Theory exams. It’s a great opportunity to develop knowledge and play a role in ensuring the quality of the next generation of paediatricians.

Examinations

Volunteering opportunity

Child Protection Evidence: Expert Reviewers and Chapter Leads

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: Ideas and participation on quality assurance

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

We are continuously recruiting faculty members to help deliver our educational courses for members and other child health professionals - either virtually (via platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams ) or in-person across the UK.

Continuing professional development

Volunteering opportunity

Education and training: How to 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

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: How 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 and other volunteering roles in global child health

The success of our global child health programmes 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 oversea...

Global child health

Volunteering

Volunteering opportunity

Influence and contribute to new paediatric clinical guidelines and quality standards

It is essential that paediatricians and other child health professionals contribute to and shape the development of child health clinical guidelines, both from RCPCH and from other organisations like NICE. This page lists current and forthcoming consultations and detail on how to get involved.

Clinical guidelines and standards

Continuing professional development

Paediatric sub-specialty

Quality improvement

Volunteering opportunity

MRCPCH Clinical examiner - opportunities for international members

We welcome applicants to this interesting and important opportunity to contribute to MRCPCH clinical exams around the world. We are particularly keen for applications from Egypt, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE, where there is a growing need for new examiners. We encourage applications from underr...

Examinations