Consultant General Surgeon s.i. Colo-rectal Surgery

Mercy University Hospital

Location: On site / Cork City, Cork, Ireland
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Medical & Healthcare | Medical Specialisms
Annual Salary range: from € 238,221.00 to € 286,151.00

Permanent Contract, Mercy University Hospital – 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 commitment for this post will be to the Mercy 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.

The f ollowing qualifications shall apply to this appointment:

Registration as a specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the specialty of General Surgery and two years certified postgraduate training in colo-rectal surgery.

Informal enquiries to Professor Micheal O’Riordain, Chair, Department of Surgery, Mercy University Hospital.

Job description available from Lorna Sheehan, Medical Workforce Manager onEmail:

Closing Date for applications is 5pm on Tuesday, 10th November 2026.

Mercy University Hospital (MUH)

MUH is a growing voluntary hospital in the heart of Cork City. We have over 1,800 staff providing complex diagnostic, medical and surgical care through our inpatient, day patient, outpatient and emergency services.

We are a teaching hospital, a centre of national and international excellence, and are renowned for our research and tertiary services.

Providing 24/7 acute surgical, acute medical and critical care, MUH now has multiple sites across the city and continues to expand. We recently opened our Blarney Rehabilitation Unit, a post-acute care specialist rehabilitation unit with 50 beds in Blarney, County Cork.

From Cardiac Care to Intensive Care, our varied specialist services offer real career choice to our team.

And we live by our Core Values of Compassion, Excellence, Justice, Respect and Team Spirit.