Locum Consultant Rheumatologist
HSE Dublin and North East
Locum Consultant Rheumatologist
HSE Dublin and North East
To work with the existing Rheumatology consultants to provide a comprehensive Rheumatology service to patients of the Dublin and North East region.
Our Lady’s Hospital is part of the DNE, with its Academic Partner University College Dublin (UCD), is the largest and most diverse hospital group in Ireland in terms of population, budget, staffing, number of hospitals, geographical spread and number of partner Community Healthcare Organisations. DNE aims to deliver consistently high-quality, safe care, while transforming and integrating clinical services across the 9 hospitals in the Region to meet the needs of the people we serve. The Dublin and North East Hospital Region includes the following hospitals:
It is the stated ambition of DNE to become the first Academic Health Science Centre in Irish healthcare. This ambition serves as a rationale for striving to continuously improve Region performance.
DNE recognises the need for the development of a healthcare system that is sustainable and capable of delivering consistently high-quality services.
Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan is an Acute General Hospital for adults. It is part of the Dublin and North East Region which includes eight other hospitals within the group. Our Lady’s Hospital has a total of 134 beds and provides a general acute hospital service to the catchment area of Meath and a Regional Elective Orthopaedic service. The acute services are as follows: General Medicine including MAU, General Surgery, Elective Orthopaedics, Regional Rheumatology service, ICU/HDU, CCU, Emergency Department, Gynaecology Day surgery and Out-patient, Medical & Surgical Day Services, Out-patient service, Pathology services, Radiology, Occupational Therapy, Pre-op Assessment, Anaesthetic Services.
For further details, please see full Job Specification attached below:
Consultant Rheumatologist (Specified Purpose Contract)
Registration as a specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the specialty of Rheumatology and General (internal) Medicine.
Entry to competition / recruitment process
No candidate will be appointed as a Rheumatology Consultant unless (s)he is registered as a Specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council of Ireland.
Entry to competition and subsequent appointment
For the purposes of eligibility for entry to any competition or recruitment process associated with this post, a candidate must fulfil the eligibility requirements laid down in the information pack for the post.
The successful interviewee must be registered as a Specialist in the relevant specialty on the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council of Ireland before taking up appointment. The candidate will be allowed a max of 180 calendar days from date of interview to secure this registration and produce evidence of special interest training where relevant
Should the successful candidate not be registered as a Specialist at that time, the post may be offered to the next suitable candidate (or, in the case of HSE posts, the Public Appointments Service may choose not to recommend that candidate to the employer). Should no suitable candidate exist, a further recruitment process may be initiated.
Section 62 Post
It is noted that this post of Consultant Rheumatology is considered to carry with it duties involving the teaching of clinical medicine and/or the conduct of medical research under the direction of the RCSI. Therefore, this post is considered a Section 62 post under the Health Act 1953 as amended by the Health Act 2004.
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