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HSE Dublin & South East
https://www.hse.ie
05/02/2026
Carlow, Kilkenny
St. Luke's General Hospital Carlow Kilkenny
26/02/2026, 15:00
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Permanent
Health Service Executive
Consultant in Emergency Medicine St Luke's General Hospital, Carlow/Kilkenny for 18.5 hours per week
This is an appointment to the HSE Dublin & South East Region on a Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023 by the Health Service Executive. The initial commitment for this post will be to St Luke's General Hospital, Carlow/Kilkenny for 18.5 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.
To act as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine within St. Luke’s General Hospital Kilkenny and the Carlow Minor Injury Unit once opened, and within a team-based model of care, sharing infrastructures, NCHD and support staff but retaining named Consultants’ responsibility for individual patients.
Please see information booklet for more details
St. Luke’s General Hospital Kilkenny is a large acute hospital in Kilkenny City which provides acute healthcare services to the people of Carlow and Kilkenny. The hospital has 1,444 staff, a budget of €100,000,000 and a catchment population of 175,000.
The Department of Emergency Medicine delivers emergency and outpatient emergency services and are involved in continual change initiatives to improve:
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 August 2025:
€233,527 €246,150 €259,475 €266,489 €273,501 €280,513
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.
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
Dr Bronwen Roman
Consultant ED
bronwen.roman1@hse.ie
This vacancy is closed to applications.
