Airway Fellow Anaesthesia - July 2026

Overview

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.

 

 

Applications are invited from suitably qualified doctors for the following posts which are available from 13th July 2026:

 

 

Airway Fellow Anaesthesia

                                                                                                                                                                              

 

Post Specifications:

• Each candidate must hold a valid Irish Medical Council Registration
• 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.        

 

Enquiries

Informal enquiries to Prof Michael Moore (michaelmoore2@beaumont.ie).

 

Closing date for receipt of applications is 12pm on Wednesday 13th May 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

 

Responsibilities

AIRWAY AND SIMULATION FELLOW

We are seeking an exceptional individual to join the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Beaumont Hospital for one year as an Anaesthesia Airway and Simulation Fellow. This individual will learn and gain clinical experience in all airway techniques for a diverse patient population in complex head and neck surgery, neurosurgery, cervical spine surgery and plastic surgery. The Airway Fellowship has an active teaching curriculum in awake intubation, jet ventilation, videolaryngoscopy, TIVA, apnoeic oxygenation, airway crisis resource management, airway ultrasound and surgical airways using different techniques on mannequin, tissue and hybrid models. Additionally, the fellow will be actively involved in teaching airway courses and simulations, and will participate in the Multidisciplinary Airway Team at Beaumont Hospital.

The Anaesthesia Airway and Simulation Fellowship is recognized by the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland.

Research

The airway fellow will conduct airway research in the clinical and simulation settings. Successful candidates will have one dedicated nonclinical day per week (according to non clinical activity and at discretion of fellowship organiser). Teaching and research are done in close collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Simulation Centre at 26 York Street, St Stephen’s Green. The fellow will have opportunities to present their research at local, national and international scientific meetings. The fellow will gain experience in formulating/conducting research projects, writing ethics submissions, and writing/completing a manuscript for publication.

Clinical Duties

Clinical duties include providing anesthesia care in the Operating theatre, Intensive Care Unit and Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic. The Fellow will be expected to participate in an on-call rota for theatre and ICU.

Eligibility Criteria for candidates

 Successful completion of a specialist training program in anaesthesia and are eligible for Specialist Registration in Anaesthesia or eligible for Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training is desirable. The successful candidate must hold registration with the Irish Medical Council.