Consultant Cardiologist - Cork University Hospital at HSE South West

Vacancy ID

4395

Department/Authority

HSE South West

Department/Authority Website

https://www.hse.ie

Working pattern

Full-Time

Advertising Date

06/05/2026

County

Cork

Location

Cork University Hospital

Closing Date for Application

28/05/2026, 15:00

Grade

Consultant Cardiologist

Contract

Permanent

Type of role

Health Service Executive

Candidate Information Booklet

4395 MECA6021 Cons Cardiologist, CUH Info Booklet.pdf – 972KB

Irish Candidate Information Booklet

4395 MECA6021 Cons Cardiologist, CUH Info Booklet.pdf – 972KB

Additional document 1

MECA6021 - Letter of Approval.pdf – 135KB

Accessibility Information: We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications under all nine grounds of the Employment Equality Act. Please see our Statement on Accessibility

Job summary

Consultant Cardiologist Cork University Hospital for 37 hours per week

This is an appointment to the HSE South West Region on a Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023 by the Health Service Executive. The initial commitment for this post will be to Cork University Hospital for 37 hours per week. This post may be subject to restructuring in the future to facilitate the reorganisation of acute services in line with new clinical models of acute and community services. It is noted that the post must be congruent with the requirements of, and facilitate implementation of national health policy, the HSE’s National Clinical Programmes including commitment to deliver the relevant performance outcomes.

Main Duties of the Job

The Consultant Cardiologists working across Cork University Hospital, Mercy University Hospital and Mallow General Hospital provide hospital based inpatient and outpatient secondary and tertiary Cardiology care to a population of 584,156 (Cork County) to 1,373,346 (Munster Region). There are hospital based general cardiology, rapid access chest pain and heart failure medication uptitration clinics.

Central to cardiology in the region is the primary PCI service, this can only maintained by having an appropriate number of specialist interventional cardiologists to ensure timely reperfusion therapy to STEMI patients 24/7 from the entire region. Currently the number of primary PCI cases per year is approximately 250 cases/year.

Advances in interventional cardiology, such as atherectomy, calcium modification therapies also mean that many patients can now be effectively treated percutaneously rather than surgically for non-STEMI related coronary disease presentations.

The Cardiologist’s will be expected:

To contribute effectively to the primary PCI programme in the South West Region;
To develop, lead and provide inpatient (including consultations) and outpatient specialist cardiac interventional services in his/her base hospital;
Contribute to non-invasive as well as interventional cardiology hospital on-call services;
To advance and expand the complex coronary interventional program.
To contribute and advance the structural heart disease program
To act as a learning resource and provide and promote continuing education in Interventional
Cardiology for cardiology colleagues and non-consultant hospital doctors in training in cardiology. Contribute to the development of pathways and support early discharge/hospital avoidance where possible;
Contribute to general/specialty-specific hospital on-call services;
Embrace service redesign as appropriate for their specialty-specific services.

Please see information booklet for more details

Information about the organisation

Care is delivered in a variety of settings. New approaches and models of care to follow the care demands of the Health Service are being advanced within the context of overall healthcare reform, to include Sláintecare.

A team of Consultant Cardiologists working in Cork University Hospital (CUH), the Mercy University Hospital and Integrated Care Community Hubs work together as part of a city wide group, providing Cardiology care to Co. Cork and the wider Munster area, which have respective populations of 584,156 and 1,373,346 according to the 2022 census.

The Cardiology service at CUH provides inpatient and outpatient care, non-invasive diagnostics, interventional cardiology (coronary stenting, percutaneous aortic valve replacement, balloon mitral valvuloplasty and ASD/PFO closure), invasive cardiac electrophysiology (EP) and cardiac rehabilitation.

The Cardiology service in CUH is the tertiary referral centre for the region and receives referrals from University Hospital Kerry, University Hospital Waterford, Bantry General Hospital, Mallow General Hospital, and South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel. CUH participates in the national ACS program and is one of 5 national primary PCI centres providing a 24/7 service for STEMI patients.

Please see information booklet for more details

Benefits

The appointment is whole-time, permanent and pensionable.

The annual salary will be as set out in the Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023. Medical Consultants Salary Scales from 1st February 2026

€235,862 €248,612 €262,070 €269,154 €276,236 €283,318

The standard working week applying to the post is: 37 hours per week.

The annual leave associated with the post is: 30 Working Days per annum.

Selection Process Details

A ranking and or shortlisting exercise may be carried out on the basis of information supplied in your application form. The criteria for ranking and or shortlisting are based on the requirements of the post as outlined in the eligibility criteria and skills, competencies and/or knowledge section of this job specification.Therefore it is very important that you think about your experience in light of those requirements.

Failure to include information regarding these requirements may result in you not being called forward to the next stage of the selection process.

The HSE is an equal opportunities employer.

Vacancy contact:

Dr Ronan Curtin