Consultant Nephrologist & General Physician - Lead Transplant Nephrologist with a Special Interest Living Donation at the National Kidney Transplant Service at Beaumont Hospital

BEAUMONT HOSPITAL

Beaumont Hospital, incorporating St. Joseph’s Raheny, is a large academic teaching hospital 5km north of Dublin City centre.  It is the lead Level 4 hospital within the HSE Dublin and North East Region, which includes Connolly Hospital, Rotunda Hospital, Cavan / Monaghan Hospitals, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, with its academic partners The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland University of Medicine & Health Sciences and Dublin City University. 

Beaumont Hospital hosts the National Kidney Transplant Centre. In addition, 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 & Throat, and Gastroenterology, the national referral centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology, the National Poisons Information Centre, Cochlear Implantation and Mechanical Thrombectomy. The Hospital has been recently designated as a European Stroke Organisation (ESO) stroke centre in addition to the National Centre for Skull Based Cancer Services.

With a workforce of approximately 4,500 staff and a combined bed complement of 1058 (IP & DC) beds, Beaumont Hospital is the principal teaching hospital for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 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.

The St. Joseph's Hospital Raheny site provides both medical and surgical inpatient care, day-care, outpatient, outpatient physiotherapy, radiology services, Care of the Elderly Rehabilitation and a 100 bedded Raheny Community Nursing Unit.

Applications are invited for the following post:

Consultant Nephrologist

Lead Transplant Nephrologist with a Special Interest Living Donation at the National Kidney Transplant Service at Beaumont Hospital

This is an appointment for a Consultant Nephrologist on a Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023 to HSE Dublin and North East Region by Beaumont Hospital (33.5 hours per week) and RCSI (3.5 hours per week).

Before taking up the post, applicants must be registered in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the specialty of nephrology.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information relating to the role.

Informal enquiries may be made Prof Declan de Freitas, Clinical Director of TUN Directorate and Consultant Nephrologist & General Physician email: declandefreitas@beaumont.ie

Beaumont Hospital is proud of its family friendly policies and is an employer of choice for flexible working options. The Hospital is open to consider flexible working arrangement requests for the filling of these posts. 

A panel may be formed from vacancies which arise over the next 12 months.

Please apply via the link together with the names and addresses of four referees (least one reference to be from your current employer, specifically a Clinical Director or direct supervisor) no later than 12 noon on Friday, 30^th January 2026.

Job Description