Temporary Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Overview

 

Overview

Post Title:

Temporary Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Post Status:

Full time, temporary Specified Purpose Contract

Department

Emergency Medicine

Location:

Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9

Reports to:

The post holder is accountable to the Clinical Director of the Emergency Medicine Directorate

Salary:

Appointment will be made on the Public Only Consultant Contract 2023 (€238,221 – €286,151) at a point in line with Government pay policy. 

Hours of work: 

37 Hours Per Week

Closing Date for applications:

21/08/2026

Interview Date:

To be confirmed.

Taking up appointment:

The successful candidate is expected to take up duty no later than one month of being offered the position.

 

 

Temporary Consultant in Emergency Medicine

 

We are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic Consultant in Emergency Medicine to join our multidisciplinary team at Beaumont Hospital. The successful candidate will provide expert clinical leadership and high quality emergency care to our diverse patient population. The adult only Emergency Department at Beaumont Hospital provides care to in excess of 65,000 patients annually with a catchment population amongst the oldest in Ireland. The Emergency Medicine team here are deeply committed to providing high quality patient care with an ethos focused on patient safety, clinical governance and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will be provided with an opportunity to contribute to our impactful patient –centred research and academic profile; as well as our structured education programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate training.

 

This is a temporary appointment under the Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023 at Beaumont Hospital (37 hours per week). Applicants must be registered, or entitled to so be, on the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners as maintained by the Medical Council of Ireland in the speciality of Emergency Medicine.

  

 

Beaumont Hospital

 

Beaumont Hospital, incorporating St. Joseph’s Hospital Raheny, is a large academic teaching hospital 5km north of Dublin City centre. It provides emergency and acute care services across 54 medical specialties to a local community of some 290,000 people. It is a designated cancer centre and the regional treatment centre for ear, nose and throat, and gastroenterology, and the national referral centre for neurosurgery and neurology, renal transplantation, cochlear implantation and mechanical thrombectomy.

 

The hospital is a Level 4 hospitals within the HSE Dublin and North East Region, which includes Connolly Hospital, Rotunda Hospital, Cavan/Monaghan Hospitals, Louth/Meath Hospitals, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh. Beaumont Hospital is the principal teaching hospital for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.  It employs approximately 4,000 staff and has a bed complement of 820 beds. It also enjoys close links with Dublin City University, especially in the area of nurse training, and with other academic institutions in respect of training and research.

 

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Peadar Gilligan [email protected] and Dr Owen Keane [email protected]  

 

Please apply via the link with your up to date CV together with the names and addresses of two referees (at least one reference should be from your current or most recent employer, specifically a Clinical Director or direct supervisor) no later than 12 noon on Friday the 21/08/2026.