Consultant Histopathologist

Description:

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 Royal College of Surgeons Hospital Group, 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 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:

This is an appointment to the RCSI Hospitals Group on a Type B basis under the Consultants’ Contract 2008 by Beaumont Hospital (33.5 hours per week) and RCSI (3.5 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 histopathology. As this post will be supporting the breast service, a sub-specialty interest in breast pathology is desirable.