Overview
Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine
The HSE Integrated Health Area of Dublin North County and Beaumont Hospital are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic Geriatrician with excellent leadership and service development skills. This new substantive post has been developed to support the expansion of the existing nursing home liaison service. The appointee will become a fully integrated member of the Beaumont Geriatric Medicine Department and will lead a team of dedicated healthcare professionals in provision of medical services to nursing home residents.
The Geriatric Medicine Department
The appointee will join 12 existing consultants in a well-established Geriatric Medicine Department. The Department provides a wide range of inpatient, outpatient and liaison services. Services offered include acute inpatient care on two Specialist Geriatric Wards, orthogeriatrics, fracture liaison, rehabilitation (58 off-site beds), Emergency Department liaison, community integrated care, stroke (National Thrombectomy Service), a Day Hospital service (5 days/week) and 6 outpatient clinics. The Department supports an approximately 1/30 GIM roster. While the Department supports the stroke service, this post has no commitment to the stroke and thrombectomy rosters.
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 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 designated as a European Stroke Organisation (ESO) Stroke Centre in addition to the National Centre for Skull Based Cancer Services and an OECI Cancer 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, Geriatric Rehabilitation and a 100 bedded Raheny Community Nursing Unit.
INTEGRATED HEALTH AREA OF DUBLIN NORTH COUNTY
IHA Dublin North County is part of the wider RHA Dublin & North East and is responsible for providing care and services to a population of approximately 284,727 in Dublin North County. Robert Kidd is IHA manager for this area and has full responsibility and accountability for the delivery of all Community Healthcare services in the area. Community Healthcare Services are the broad range of services that are delivered outside of the acute hospital setting and include:
* Primary Care
* Social Care - Older Persons
* Social Care - Disabilities
* Mental Health
* Health and Wellbeing
Community Healthcare Services place a strong emphasis on working with communities and individuals to maintain and improve health and social well-being. We do this by providing you with an integrated, interdisciplinary, high-quality, team-based, and user-friendly service. “Deliver the right service, at the right time, in the right place, by the right team.”
Applications are invited for the following post:
Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine
This is an appointment to the Integrated Health Area of Dublin North County & Beaumont Hospital on a Public Only Consultant Contract 2023 consisting of Integrated Health Area of Dublin North County (25 hours per week), Beaumont Hospital (8.5 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 geriatric medicine and general (internal) medicine.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Alan Martin at alanmartin@beaumont.ie
Integrated Health Area of Dublin North County & Beaumont Hospital are proud of its family-friendly policies and are 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 with a copy of your up-to-date CV 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, 21st March 2025
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