International Fellowship in Skull base and Vascular Neurosurgery - July 2025

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.

International Fellowship in Vascular and Skull Base Neurosurgery

National Neurosurgical Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

The International Vascular and Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellowship is a clinical fellowship based at the National Neurosurgical Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. The fellowship is best suited to those who have achieved certificate of completion of training (CCT) in neurosurgery in the UK or Ireland, or the equivalent in other countries, but is also open to those who have passed their FRCS(SN) examination or equivalent.

The National Neurosurgical Centre at Beaumont Hospital covers a catchment population of approximately 3.8 million people and provides all aspects of emergency and elective neurosurgery for adults. There are 11 WTE consultant neurosurgeons.

Neurovascular service: The neurovascular service is provided by 3.5 WTE consultant neurosurgeons and 5 WTE interventional neuroradiologists. Beaumont hospital also provides a national stroke thrombectomy service. There is a weekly neurovascular MDT meeting. Approximately 80-90 open neurovascular microsurgical operations are performed each year including aneurysm clipping, AVM excision and EC-IC bypass.

Skull base & pituitary service: Beaumont hospital is the national centre for skull base surgery and this is provided by a team of neurosurgeons, ENT surgeons and endocrinologists. There are 3 skull base clinics and 2 pituitary clinics per month. There are more than 100 endoscopic pituitary and anterior skull base surgeries performed each year. Lateral skull base surgery includes surgery for vestibular schwannomas, meningiomas and other pathologies of the skull base. Stereotactic radiosurgery is performed by a team of neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at St Luke’s radiation oncology centre at Beaumont.

The centre is very active in research, audit and teaching and is affiliated to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).

Post Specifications:       

• The candidate must hold a valid Irish Medical Council Registration
• The candidate must have passed the intercollegiate examination in neurosurgery and hold FRCS(SN) or equivalent
• 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.

Closing date for receipt of applications is the 9^th June 2025

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

Applications are invited from suitably qualified doctors for the following post which is available from 14th July 2025 for 12 months:

Please note that some 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