Consultant Neuropathologist

BEAUMONT HOSPITAL

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

Beaumont Hospital provides emergency and acute care services across 54 medical specialties to a local community of some 290,000 people. In addition, 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, Renal Transplantation, the National Poisons Information Centre, Cochlear Implantation and Mechanical Thrombectomy. The Hospital has been recently designated as an European Stroke Organisation (ESO) stroke centre.

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 Neuropathologist

This is an appointment on a Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023 by Beaumont Hospital (33.5 hours per week) and RCSI (3.5 hours per week).

Applicants must be registered/in the process of registration or eligible for registration in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the specialty of neuropathology.

Informal enquiries may be made to Prof Patrick Thornton, Clinical Director, Laboratory Directorate, Beaumont Hospital by email on patrickthornton@beaumont.ie or Prof Francesca Brett, Consultant Neuropathologist, Beaumont Hospital by email on francescabrett@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. 

Please apply via the link together with the names and addresses of four referees (one of whom should refer to a recent appointment) no later than 12 noon on Friday 24^th January 2025

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