Consultant Cardiologist & General Physician

Beaumont Hospital, incorporating St. Joseph’s Hospital Raheny, is a large academic teaching hospital 5km north of Dublin City centre. Beaumont Hospital provides emergency and acute care services across 54 medical specialties to a local community of some 290,000 people. In addition, Beaumont Hospital is a designated cancer centre and the regional treatment centre for ear, nose and throat, and gastroenterology, and the national referral centre for neurosurgery and neurology, renal transplantation, cochlear implantation and mechanical thrombectomy.

Beaumont Hospital is one of the Level 4 hospital within the HSE Dublin and North East Region, which includes Connolly Hospital, Rotunda Hospital, Cavan/Monaghan Hospitals, Louth/Meath Hospitals, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh, and Beaumont Hospital who is the principal teaching hospital for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Beaumont Hospital employs approximately 4,000 staff and has a bed complement of 820 beds. Beaumont Hospital is the principal teaching hospital for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.  Beaumont Hospital 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.

St. Joseph's Hospital Raheny, is an acute hospital that provides both medical and surgical in-patient care, day care, outpatient, outpatient physiotherapy and radiology services.  A dedicated Care of the Elderly Rehabilitation Unit and a 100 bedded Raheny Community Nursing Unit have also been developed on the St. Joseph’s campus.

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 isolation rooms.

Applications are invited for the following post:

This is an appointment to the RCSI Hospitals Group on a Public Only Consultant Contract 2023 by Beaumont Hospital (18.5 hours per week) and Cavan & Monaghan Hospital (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 cardiology and general (internal) medicine.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Brendan Mc Adam, Consultant Cardiologist – Beaumont Hospital, email: brendanmcadam@beaumont.ie  or Prof Mark Kennedy, Consultant Cardiologist – Beaumont Hospital, email: markkennedy@beaumont.ie or Dr Val Gough, Clinical Director, Cavan Hospital, email: valgough@hse.ie

Please apply via the link provided together with the names and addresses of four referees (at least one reference to be from your current employer, specifically a Clinical Director or direct supervisor) no later than no later than 12 noon on Friday, 11th December 2026.  

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