LOCUM CONSULTANT HISTOPATHOLOGIST in Dublin 8

About the Role

The Coombe Hospital is one of the largest providers of women and newborn health care in the Republic of Ireland. We care for up to 10,000 pregnant women every year. In addition, over 1,000 newborns are admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Centre and over 8,000 adult surgical operations are performed. The hospital provides comprehensive care for women and newborns at local, regional and national levels.

The hospital promotes and supports normality in pregnancy and child birth; the hospital also provides a comprehensive range of highly specialised care in high risk maternal and fetal medicine, newborn medicine, anaesthesia and gynaecology.

The TCH laboratory will be positioned as a ‘centre of excellence’ for women’s health, and will seek to leverage existing histopathology expertise in the Irish health system to augment the available resource model for this service.

The successful candidate will perform the following duties:

• Maintain awareness of the primacy of the patient in relation to all of the Hospital’s activities.
• Demonstrate behaviour consistent with the Values of the Hospital.
• Promote open communications throughout the hospital.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team under the direction of the Master/CEO & CCOO and the Director of Pathology.
• Work as part of the Laboratory Medicine Division within the Hospital.
• Provide clinical leadership in MDT context – National Colposcopy Clinics, other hospital providing services.
• Conferences, teaching, training and audit.
• Provide teaching/training for existing Histopathology NCHD and scientific staff.
• Provide teaching for colposcopists.
• Colposcopy Service (OPD).

The Consultant’s reporting relationship and accountability for the discharge of his/her contract is to the Master of the hospital, CCOO and the Director of Pathology.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the management of patients under his/her care, and, in liaison with consultant colleagues, continuity of care when the candidate is absent.

Requirements

The successful candidate will:

• Be fully trained to the level of Consultant Histopathologist / Cytopathologist.
• Demonstrate leadership.
• Have additional experience in other specialist areas to meet the needs of the Hospital.
• Possess the necessary skill-mix to address current deficiencies.

Details

Location: Dublin 8, Ireland

Contract type: Full time, Temporary

Salary: €238,221–€286,151 per year

Closing date: 25 Oct 2026

Fluent English required.

How to Apply

Who We Are

The Coombe Hospital is one of the largest providers of women and newborn health care in the Republic of Ireland. We care for up to 10,000 pregnant women every year. In addition, over 1,000 newborns are admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Centre and over 8,000 adult surgical operations are performed. The hospital provides comprehensive care for women and newborns at local, regional and national levels.