Locum Consultant Paediatric Respiratory Physician

Childrens Health Ireland are seeking to fill this Consultant Paediatric Respiratory Physician post on a specified purpose contract 37 hours per week at Childrens Health Ireland. This includes 18.50 hours per week at CHI at Temple Street and 18.50 hours per week at CHI at Tallaght.

Purpose of the Role:

Strategy:

i) To reduce extremely long waiting lists for outpatient clinic review: currently there is a two year waiting list for a routine new appointment with a consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine at CHI at Temple Street and 1 year at CHI at Tallaght.

ii) To reduce waiting lists for investigations of sleep disordered breathing. Currently there is a two year waiting list for overnight studies to diagnose these disorders e.g. overnight oxygen and carbon dioxide studies and overnight oxygen studies. There is a two year waiting list for both of these studies at CHI at Temple St. At CHI at Tallaght there is a 20 month waiting list for overnight oxygen and carbon dioxide studies a 29-month with for overnight oxygen studies and a 5 month waiting list for cardiorespiratory polygraphy (CRPG).

iii) To reduce waiting times for investigations to assess and regularly monitor gas exchange in children on long term ventilation (e.g. CPAP and BIPAP: overnight sleep study waiting times as outlined above.

Specialities whose workload will change:

This will reduce the waiting time for patients referred for Respiratory review and investigation from other specialties including ENT Neurology Orthopaedics Metabolic Endocrine Neuro-disability General Paediatrics Craniofacial etc. This will reduce waiting time for GP referrals for secondary and tertiary respiratory review.

Respiratory service:

Currently there is a two year waiting list for routine new outpatient paediatric Respiratory appointments in CHI at Temple St. and a one year waiting time in CHI at Tallaght.

There is a two year wait for overnight oxygen studies investigations for sleep disordered breathing in CHI Temple Street and 29 months waiting list at CHI Tallaght.

There is a two year wait for overnight oxygen and carbon dioxide studies for routine assessment of children on long term ventilation (e.g. CPAP and BIPAP) and those with sleep disordered breathing at CHI Temple St and similarly a 20 and 18 month waiting list espectively at CHI Tallaght (e.g. overnight oxygen and carbon dioxide studies). These studies are important to assess and regularly monitor the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels.

Provision of a long term ventilation service for children: the number of referrals for this service from a broad range of sub-specialities has hugely increased over the last few years as have referrals from across the country. Investigation of Sleep Disordered breathing in children is an area that has increased significantly over the last few years with huge increase in referrals to respiratory services from within the hospital and from across the country

Investigation of Sleep Disordered breathing in children is an area that has increased significantly over the last few years with huge increase in referrals to respiratory services from within the hospital and from across the country

This post will also support the Clinical Specialty Lead for Respiratory to fulfil the remit of the Clinical Specialty Lead role.

Eligibility Criteria

Professional Qualifications and Experience

Mandatory:

a) 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 Paediatrics and

b) Two years certified postgraduate training in paediatric respiratory medicine

The successful interviewee must be registered as a specialist in the relevant specialty on the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council of Ireland within 180 days of the day of interview and before taking up exceptional circumstances proleptic appointments may be considered for candidates engaged in relevant training programmes.

The Consultant must at all times while continuing to hold office continue to be registered with the Medical Council of Ireland. Documentary evidence of Medical Council Registration is required and must be produced annually to the Medical Administration Department within the Childrens Health Ireland.

Should the successful candidate not be registered as a Specialist at that time the post may be offered to the next suitable candidate. Should no suitable candidate exist a further recruitment process may be initiated.

Desirable Criteria:

Clinical fellowship or specialist training in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine national or international. Experience with interventional bronchoscopy and aerodigestive disorders is desirable but not essential.

Essential:

Skills / Competencies / Knowledge:

• Significant experience in clinical practice in delivery of acute unscheduled care
• Experienced clinician with credibility and the ability to command the respect of all clinical and non-clinical professionals
• Experience of developing applying and reviewing an evidence-based approach to decision making
• Excellent inter-personal skills including experience and familiarity with public professional media and political communications and stakeholder relations
• Demonstrate commitment to fostering partnerships multi-professional and multi-disciplinary relationships
• Demonstrate a knowledge and undertaking of the current governance structures and anticipated changes with the establishment of the new childrens hospital
• Experience in reconfiguring acute services across organisations and regions
• Demonstrate leadership and team management skills including the ability to manage his/her staff and service and work with multi-disciplinary team members
• Experience of operating in complex and challenging environments
• Knowledge of the Irish health sector national health programmes and health reform agendas
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Effective change management skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Risk and issue management skills
• Ability to recognise and respect the expertise of others and the contribution of team members and harness good teamwork and open contributions to enable the achievement of programme aims
• Demonstrate evidence of effective planning and organisational skills including awareness of resource management
• Have excellent computer skills competencies and knowledge of hospital data/ information systems

Competition Specific Selection Process

The criteria for short listing are based on the requirements of the post as outlined in the eligibility criteria and/or the essential & desirable knowledge skills and competencies section of this job specification.

Failure to include information regarding these requirements may result in you not being called forward to the next stage of the selection process

To apply for this position please send a CV and letter of application.

The closing date for submissions of CVs and letter of application is 11:45pm on Sunday 7th September 2025. Applications must be completed through the advertised post on by clicking Apply for Job.

Applications will not be accepted through direct email or any other method.

Informal Enquiries can be obtained from: Prof. Dubhfeasa Slattery Consultant Respiratory and General Paediatrician CHI at Temple Street and Lead of CHIs Professionalism Programme Email: or Dr. Basil Elnazir -

For other queries relating to this recruitment process please contact the Medical Talent Acquisition specialist Cillian Greene via