Professor/Consultant of Paediatrics, Medicine, Perm
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD)
- Location
- Dublin
- Closing date
- 20 Nov 2024
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Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Professor/Consultant of Paediatrics within UCD School of Medicine.
The University and the Hospital wish to expand academic leadership in Paediatrics by attracting an outstanding clinician scientist with an internationally competitive profile in research, training and education. The appointee will join Ireland's largest university and one of Europe's largest academic paediatric tertiary hospital. The appointee will serve in the leadership team of Paediatric Chairs across the CHI partner universities and foster the growth of academic paediatric care, education and research.
All parties are committed to building collaborative programmes involving the community of academic and clinical staff to further develop Ireland as an internationally recognised clinical centre of excellence in paediatrics that enhances the quality of care for Irish patients.
The UCD Full Professor of Paediatrics will be based at Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin (and subsequently at the National Children's Hospital (NCH) on the St James campus when construction is completed)**, where they will be an academic leader working with colleagues to oversee the design and conduct of high-impact and innovative research programmes with the aim of improving clinical outcomes for Irish children. The appointee will also be responsible for the design, delivery and assessment of modules and programmes for undergraduate and graduate students. They will be an experienced clinical leader who will contribute to the development of a state-of-the-art paediatric clinical services at the hospital and across the island.
Successful candidate will be appointed on the appropriate Salary scale at the first point in scale or in line with current Government pay policy and commensurate with experience.
Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on the 13th of December 2024.
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.
UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.
Note: Hours of work for academic staff are those as prescribed under Public Service Agreements. For further information please follow link below:
https://www.ucd.ie/hr/t4media/Academic Contract.pdf
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Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the Work at UCD website: https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/
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UCD is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities; an environment where undergraduate education, masters and PhD training, research, innovation and community engagement form a dynamic spectrum of activity.
As Ireland's largest university, with its great strength and diversity of disciplines, UCD embraces its role to contribute to the flourishing of Ireland through the study of people, society, business, economy, culture, languages and the creative arts, as well as through research and innovation.
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Research and innovation are essential drivers of a dynamic economy, an informed society and a vibrant culture. The spectrum of research and innovation at UCD encompasses individual scholars, research groups, start-up companies and large-scale collaborations with industry and other partners. Research is conducted within each of the University's extensive range of disciplines, and in multidisciplinary research programmes addressing challenges of global scale.
In 2022/23 UCD researchers secured €161 million in research grants from national and international funding agencies, companies and foundations. Since 2012/13 UCD researchers have secured over €1.3 billion in such grants. Their research underpins national research and technology institutes and centres, including the SFI funded Insight Data Analytics, Food Health Ireland, Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), CeADAR Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence, BiOrbic, Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre, I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and NexSys (Next Generation Energy Systems). UCD is the national leader in winning European Union research funding.
Over the last decade UCD researchers have increased their annual number of papers in the international literature by 62% and have authored more than 40,000 papers in total. These papers are cited by other researchers at a rate that is 74% above the world average. In addition, 62% of the papers were co-authored with institutions in other countries/regions, underlining UCD’s role as Ireland’s global university.
As Ireland's leader in innovation, technology transfer and commercialisation, UCD's commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship recognises the importance of active participation and collaboration to exploit leading-edge research and development outputs. Supports for innovation include NovaUCD – the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs, NexusUCD – the Industry Partnership Centre and the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre at UCD Lyons Farm. Since 2003 UCD has provided support to over 550 companies and early-stage ventures through the services and supports provided across the university, through NovaUCD, and through business support programmes run and managed by NovaUCD.
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- Telephone
- +(353)17167777
- Location
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BELFIELD
DUBLIN 4
Ireland
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