Locum Consultant Stroke Physician

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 a 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: Locum Consultant Stroke Physician This is a temporary appointment to the Dublin and North East Region on a Public Only Consultant Contract 2023 by Beaumont Hospital (37 hours per week). Responsibilities:

• Management of an acute inpatient stroke service that includes providing support to the national thrombectomy service
• An outpatient stroke clinic
• Contribution to the stroke consultation service acute out of hours stroke on call, currently 1 in 8

Qualifications: 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 (Internal) Medicine. Additional subspecialty training in stroke medicine (e.g., clinical fellowship) is desirable. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Karl Boyle, Consultant in Stroke Medicine at karlboyle@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 email, together with the names and addresses of two referees (one of whom should refer to a recent appointment) no later than 12 noon on Friday 31st January 2025. #J-18808-Ljbffr