Locum Consultant Nephrologist & General Physician

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 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:

LOCUM CONSULTANT NEPHROLOGIST & GENERAL PHYSICIAN (Immediate Start)

This is an appointment for a Locum Consultant Nephrologist & General Physician on a Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023 to HSE Dublin and North East Region by Beaumont Hospital for 18.5 hours per week.

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 and general (internal) medicine.

Informal enquiries may be made Professor 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. 

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 25th July 2025.