Consultant General Physician

The HSE has created six new health regions. Each region is responsible for providing both hospital and community care for the people in that area. Bringing community health services and hospitals together means we can take a more patient-centred approach to healthcare.
HSE Dublin and North East provides health and social care to North Dublin, Louth, Meath, Monaghan and most areas of Cavan.

HSE Dublin and North East Region includes the following hospitals;

• Beaumont Hospital
• Cavan General Hospital
• Connolly Hospital
• Louth County Hospital
• Monaghan General Hospital
• Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
• National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh
• Our Lady’s Hospital Navan
• Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
• Rotunda Hospital

CAVAN MONAGHAN HOSPITAL

Cavan Monaghan Hospital is a bi-located site providing services to the population of both counties and its catchment area extends to counties Meath, Longford and Leitrim. It has a total of 421 beds with 286 of these representing acute in-patient beds. All acute inpatient services are based in Cavan Monaghan Hospital; there were approximately 17,000 acute admissions in 2018. Monaghan Hospital's primary role includes the continuing care for medically discharged patients requiring inpatient step-down and rehabilitation care.
Cavan Monaghan Hospital is a teaching hospital with links to the Royal College of Surgeons, Royal College of Physicians and the Dundalk Institute of Technology. Both sites are actively engaged with HIQA (Health Information & Quality Authority) in meeting their standards to ensure they continually strive to provide a high quality service.
Cavan Monaghan Hospital has an Emergency Department, an Acute Medical Admissions Unit, 5 General Medical wards, 1 General Surgery ward, a maternity ward, a paediatric ward, an ICU, a SCBU, and a CCU. It also has 4 operating theatres, a renal dialysis unit, a surgical day ward, an endoscopy / bronchoscopy unit, a haematology / oncology day ward, and an interventional radiology unit. Orthopaedic, vascular, urological and neurological services are provided by visiting consultants with sessional commitments. The hospital provides services for the care of paediatric and adult patients with cystic fibrosis; the paediatric ward has recently been extended and refurbished to include the provision of 2 high specifications, neutral pressure isolation rooms.

Population Details:

• 120,000 Cavan &Monaghan.
• Regional 395,000 Cavan, Monaghan Louth & Meath.

USEFUL LINKS
Our website: https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/3/acutehospitals/hospitals/cavanmonaghan/cavan-monaghan-hospital.html

Job Description and Responsibilities

Standard Duties and Responsibilities for all Consultant posts are as per Section 4 and Section 10 of the POCC23:
The Employee is hereby employed as a consultant. The Employee will be clinically independent in relation to decisions on the diagnosis, treatment and care of individual patients. This clinical independence derives from the specific relationship between the patient and the Employee. In that relationship, the patient places trust in the consultant who is personally involved in the patient’s care to make clinical decisions in the patient’s best interests and to take continuing responsibility for the consequences of that consultant’s decisions.
The Employee acknowledges that they are subject to statutory and regulatory requirements and corporate policies and procedures including those adopted for implementation by the national clinical programmes.
The Employee has a substantial and direct involvement in the medical diagnosis, treatment and delivery of care to patients.
The Employee may discharge their responsibilities through:
(a) a direct professional relationship with the patient;
(b) shared responsibility with other consultants who contribute significantly to patient management; and
(c) (subject to the following paragraph of this clause) delegation of aspects of the patient’s care to other appropriate members of staff.
The Employee will only delegate responsibility to other doctors or staff members where the delegation is consistent with the continued provision of an appropriate level of diagnosis, treatment and care to the patient in respect of the relevant episode of care. Notwithstanding any such delegation, the Employee will retain a continuing overall responsibility for the care of the patient.

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Val Gough, Clinical Director Cavan & Monaghan Hospitals,

email val.gough@hse.ie

Applications can be made by applying online at www.beaumont.ie/careers with the names of four referees no later than 12noon on 07/04/2025

Job Description Const General Physician