Locum Consultant Colo-Rectal Surgeon
Overview:
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.
CAVAN MONAGHAN HOSPITAL
Cavan & Monaghan Hospital currently provides services to the population of both counties and its catchment area extends to counties Meath, Longford and Leitrim. All acute inpatient services are based in Cavan Monaghan Hospital. Cavan Monaghan Hospital provides extensive outpatient, theatre and day services.Cavan Monaghan Hospital also provides a wide range of support services, including: pathology, radiology, pharmacy, physiotherapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy.
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, an acute surgical assessment unit (ASAU) a maternity ward, a paediatric ward, a Paediatric assessment unit (PAU) 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.
Applications are invited for the following post:
LOCUM CONSULTANT COLO-RECTAL SURGEON
This is a temporary appointment to Beaumont Hospital on the Public Only Consultant Contract by the Health Service Executive. The commitment for this post will be to Beaumont Hospital (28.5 hours per week) and Cavan General Hospital (8.5 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 general surgery and two years certified post graduate training in colo-rectal surgery.
Informal enquiries may be made to: Prof John Burke, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital email: johnburke@rcsi.ie and/or Ms Niamh Mc Cawley Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital email: niamhmccawley@rcsi.ie
Please apply via the link with a copy of your up to date CV, together with the names and addresses of two referees (one of whom should refer to a recent appointment) no later than 12 noon, 29^th October 2025.