Emergency Medicine Fellowship Neurotrauma and Neurocritical Care - July 2026

BEAUMONT HOSPITAL

(Incorporating St Joseph’s Hospital, Raheny)

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 the lead Level 4 hospital within the Royal College of Surgeons Hospital Group, which includes Connolly Hospital, Rotunda Hospital, Cavan/Monaghan Hospitals, Louth/Meath Hospitals, and the Royal College of Surgeons. 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.

Emergency Medicine Directorate Fellowship - Neurotrauma and Neurocritical Care in Emergency Medicine.

Duration of the Fellowship:

12 months - July 2026 to July 2027

Location/Clinical Site of the Fellowship

Beaumont Hospital, incorporating Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery and Neurocritical Care.

Fellowship Aims and Overview:

The overall aim of this fellowship is to provide advanced, structured training in the resuscitation and multidisciplinary management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and neurocritical care. The Fellow will develop a consultant-level skillset that improves patient outcomes and contribute to the enhancement of neurotrauma and neurocritical care provision in Ireland. This Fellowship will compromise of two 6 months rotations:

• Emergency Medicine – 6 months: this component focuses on early and effective neuro-resuscitation, trauma airway management, ventilation strategies for severe TBI and the optimisation of physiological parameters known to influence secondary brain injury, as well as the standardisation and development of relevant neurotrauma and neurocritical care pathways between the ED, the wider hospital and relevant national stakeholders.
• Neurocritical Care and Neurosurgery – 6 months: this attachment will facilitate high level training in the management of severe TBI and neurocritically unwell patients in the Richmond and General ICUs, as well as exposure to both operative and non-operative management strategies for this patient cohort. The Fellow will gain experience in the interpretation of neuroimaging by attending MDMs and participate in relevant neurosurgical interventions, ward rounds and multidisciplinary meeting

The Fellow will participate in consultant-led teaching, lead on interdisciplinary simulation training in neurotrauma and neuro-resuscitation, attend and contribute to relevant governance meetings, as well as national and international meetings. Supervision will be provided by Consultant’s in Emergency Medicine supported by a Consultant Neurosurgeon and a Consultant Neuroanaesthesiologist / Intensivist.

Candidate Profile and Anticipated Working Week:

The successful applicant will hold (or intend to hold prior to commencement of the Fellowship) a CCST in Emergency Medicine. The successful Fellow will work 30 hours per week on the clinical floor with 9 additional hours dedicated to clinical pathway development, research, clinical audit, quality improvement and interdisciplinary teaching.

Post Specifications:       

• Each candidate must hold a valid Irish Medical Council Registration
• FRCEM examination
• English Language Competency: All doctors taking up employment who were not registered with the Irish Medical Council in any of the divisions of the Register of Medical Practitioners prior to 1st January 2015, or who did not complete the entirety of their under-graduate medical training in the Republic of Ireland, are required to provide evidence of one of the following:

• Completion of your Medical degree in English from any of the following countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, The United States of America or The United Kingdom. A copy of your Degree Certificate is the required evidence

OR

• English Language Tests Certificate: International English Language Test System Certificate (IELTS – minimum overall band score of 7.0) or Occupational English Test Certificate (OET – minimum overall grade score of B). IELTS/OET test results must be current and dated within two years of the date submitted to the employer.

The Emergency Department (ED) in Beaumont Hospital provides care to 60,000 patients each year. The adult only ED is based in an Academic Teaching Hospital with an available bed base of in excess of 800 beds. The Consultant team have been involved in core and higher specialist training in Emergency Medicine for over two decades. There is protected Consultant delivered teaching each week. The ED has an active research and audit programme and the Consultant team have supported Doctors in the performance of research from the concept phase to international presentation and publication in the peer reviewed literature.

The Hospital has a Neuroscience centre, Neurosurgical Unit, Oncology and Radiation Oncology Centre and national ENT centre with a very active Stroke Unit and most specialty services are available on site.

We take pride  in providing high quality care to our patients and clinical support for our Doctors in training. 

Closing date for receipt of applications is 2pm on Friday 3rd April 2026.

Applicants should note that it will not be possible to inform all applicants individually of the outcome of their applications.

Please note that some of the above posts may be filled by recognised training schemes prior to any hospital interviews.

Beaumont Hospital is an equal opportunities employer and supports a no smoking policy