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A surge in Medical Device Sales jobs available

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Theatre Device Sales Reps required

Medical Device Theatre

We have seen an increase in demand for experienced Medical Device Sales Representatives in Ireland.

In particular for the Hospital Theatre market.

There are exciting developments and Product Launches in the pipeline and Medical Device Companies are now seeking experienced Medical Device Sales Reps to help with their Product launches and expanding Teams.

We are seeking the following -

  1. Theatre Device Sales Reps (Orthopaedics an advantage)
  2. Wound Care Device Sales Rep – Dublin
  3. Theatre Capital Equipment Sales Rep – Dublin
  4. Orthopaedic Device Sales Rep – Dublin
  5. Nutrition Product Sales Specialist – Munster (Cork)
  6. Diabetes Clinical Specialist – Sales Support

Essential Requirements for these roles -

  • Previous relevant experience in Ireland
  • A clean and full manual driving license
  • Must be living on the territory
  • Established relationships with Key Opinion Leaders in this field
  • Full flexibility to manage the territory

Packages for these roles approx  -

€45k – €55k basic

Car, Private Health Insurance, Daily Lunch Allowance, expenses, mileage, Laptop and mobile phone.

All come with a Bonus structure.

For further information about these and more current Medical Device Sales jobs -

Contact us

Letter from HSE requesting a stop on Locum Doctor Recruitment

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A&E Locum recruitment stopped

A&E Locum recruitment stopped

Hospitals across the country have received a letter from the HSE stipulating that they must stop recruiting locums to fill vacancies in emergency medicine, according to the Irish Medical News (IMN)

However, a senior consultant in emergency medicine has questioned the HSE’s contention that the recent recruitment drive in India and Pakistan has “solved” the need for locum cover in emergency departments (EDs). It is understood that the memo, sent by Ms Laverne McGuinness, the HSE’s National Director of Performance and Financial Management, on October 25, has caused particular issues at University Hospital Limerick where there has been an ongoing shortage of middle grade doctors to staff its ED. Dr Fergal Hickey, former president of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) and a consultant in emergency medicine at Sligo General Hospital, told IMN that due to the recruitment drive for doctors from India and Pakistan, the HSE believes “there is now no need for locum cover”.

According to Dr Hickey, vacancies in EDs are mainly at registrar grade, however, he said that the HSE “seems to believe that very junior, very inexperienced doctors from India and Pakistan recruitment schemes” are adequate to fill these vacancies or that doctors can be arbitrarily transferred from other services. The HSE responded saying that “significant savings” can be made by filling posts that are currently filled by locums with doctors recruited through the drive in India and Pakistan. However, Dr Hickey contended that there is “a clear lack of understanding at senior management level in the HSE about where the vacancies in emergency medicine are and the calibre of doctors required to fill these vacancies”. “Our main vacancies are at middle grade whereas the available doctors from this particular recruitment drive are at a more junior level, so the problem will continue,” he said. Dr Hickey said that HSE management “think that they have solved the recruitment crisis, which clearly they haven’t”.

Dr Hickey said that neither the HSE nor the Department of Health understands the mismatch between existing vacancies and the doctors who have been recruited from India and Pakistan, who do not have “the experience or expertise” necessary. The HSE told IMN that doctors recruited in India and Pakistan are highly qualified and experienced and “are particularly well suited to working in the Irish health system” as they train in the same system used in Ireland. According to Dr Hickey, this is a “naive” perception. “A middle grade doctor working in the ED might have three or four years experience in the Irish healthcare system, and a year or more in an ED,” he explained. “And they’re seeking naively to replace those with people who have just literally arrived in the country.”

Jackie Brown Medical launches new website!

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Alert!We have just celebrated our 4th Birthday @ Jackie Brown Medical and have given the Business a Birthday present of a fresh and fabulous new website which it deserved!

We now have movement, interraction and life on our site.

We have a Social Media aspect

We have used our job seekers and Clients comments and input in to the content and design.

We have kept the same high standard of Compliance and made it very user friendly.

As the business grows, we learn more and have more to give to you, our readers.

We have features such as our Advice Centre which gives solid advice around interviews, CV layout and Medical Sales which remains one of our Specialist sectors across Medical Recruitment.

We are very excited about it and will watch over the coming months it’s performance with Google and it’s bots!

In 2008 and 2009 we were short listed for ‘Best Online Service’ @ the National Recruitment Federation Awards and we are now aiming for the overall winner.

We couldn’t have done it without you, our readers, so please do keep your comments and feedback coming as it is very important to us to remain on top of our game.

 

Reason for Leaving

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CV writing

One of the most common questions Employers ask when they see a job seekers Curriculum Vitae (CV) is their reason for leaving their current or last job.

We advise regularly on CV writing to our job seekers and this is an area we cannot emphasise enough.

It is essential on your CV as a job seeker to clearly state your reason for leaving each job.

This can be done in one line at the end of each job and makes it alot easier for an employer to gauge if a job seeker is a ‘hopper’ – someone who leaves jobs after a short time regularly, or a ‘stayer’ – someone who shows commitment and longevity in the work place.

Employers prefer the latter.

It may simply be the case you have had contract positions, or a baby or many of the good reasons to only be in a job a short time, but if you do not state your reasons for leaving on your CV, you are left wide open to the wrong interpretation which may be the difference between an Employer dismissing your CV or not.

As a Medical Recruitment Agency, this also helps us to analyse our job seekers better.

So remember, when submitting your CV to a Recruitment Agency or directly to a Company, always state your reason for leaving after each job.

Recruiting more NCHD’s will reduce overtime bill

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Recruiting NCHD's to reduce overtime bill

Recruiting NCHD's to reduce overtime bill

The HSE will end up with more NCHDs in certain specialties than the number of existing vacancies after it allocates trainee doctors currently being recruited from India and Pakistan, Irish Medical Times exclusively reports.

 

Correspondence seen by IMT reveals that this is as a result of a deliberate plan taken at corporate level and with backing from senior management.

“As part of the allocation of Indian/Pakistani doctors from the centralised recruitment process, an additional number of doctors are being allocated to certain specialties in excess of current vacancies,” states the letter dated July 8.

According to the correspondence, the corporate motivation is to reduce overtime pay or eliminate agency cover, enhance compliance with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and improve the quality of services and working lives of doctors.

Some of the country’s largest rural and regional hospitals are set to spend up to 10 times more than the 2005 figure on agency workers to fill staff gaps this year. Despite HSE plans to reduce spending on agency workers, costs continued to rise steadily in the first three months of 2011.

As of July 4, HSE-centralised NCHD recruitment had received 1,791 applications over five rounds from February 28 to June 30, with NCHD vacancies at July 11, the date of the changeover, at 150.

The plan to hire an excess amount of NCHDs has been agreed by the National Directors with the Regional Directors of Operations (RDOs), IMT understands. Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) ceilings will not be an issue in circumstances where there is evidence that significant savings in agency/overtime can be achieved.

In line with the correspondence, sent to some local managers and clinical directors and copied to RDOs, the amount of doctors allocated would be determined by the numbers of new employees arriving from India and Pakistan. At the end of May, the Executive said more than 240 doctors from India and Pakistan had applied for visas and legislation to introduce a new classification of NCHDs has now been passed.

Local hospital management were requested, in the correspondence, to review their overtime/agency expenditure and EWTD compliance by specialty and to advise by last Friday (July 15) if this allocation could be utilised to reduce or eliminate overtime and agency costs or to enhance EWTD compliance.

The HSE expressed appreciation that this additional allocation could potentially involve changes to rosters or changes in cross-specialty cover, which in turn could generate negotiation with staff representatives.

Jackie Brown becomes a Fellow

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Jackie Brown becomes a Fellow

Jackie Brown becomes a Fellow

We are delighted to congratulate Jackie Brown on being awarded Fellowship of the National Recruitment Federation (NRF)

She has also recently successfully completed the only Recruitment Practice qualification in Ireland – The NRF Cert in Recruitment Practice.

She is currently one of the only people in Ireland with these 2 Accolades.

Speaking about her recent Award and Certificate, Jackie says – ‘I am thrilled with becoming a Fellow of The National Recruitment Federation. It is essential as Recruiters in Ireland, we are encouraged to always be proud of what we do and to become better at what we do. The more the NRF do to keep the Recruitment Practice in Ireland as a Profession to be proud of and one to be commended, the better.

We take our job seekers careers in our hands every day and it is so important to represent them as professionally and to the best of our ability.

It is not only their career, more often these days, it is their livelihood and life balance and we can make a difference to them. That is both an honour and a priviledge and we must have confidence and capability for our job seekers to be able to trust their future in our hands.

The NRF have been brilliant for our Industry in Ireland in terms of bringing it forward to a profession to be proud of and recognised.

The Code of Conduct and now the recent Certificate Course they have commenced will go a long way in ensuring that Recruiters takes this Profession seriously and our job seekers can be assured of a Legal and Professional Practice when they hand their career and future in to their Recruiters hands.

I am personally and professionally thrilled to now represent my Job Seekers and Client Companies with 11 years experience in Medical Recruitment, Fellowship of the NRF and now the Certificate in Recruitment Practice.

In my own Business @ Jackie Brown Medical, it is standard practice that we are Members of the NRF and Recruit at the highest possible standard and we use the NRF Code of Practice in all we do.

When I won the’ Recruiter of the Year’  Award in 2008, this was of benefit to my Business to ensure Best Practice at all times. Now with this Fellowship and Certificate in Recruitment Practice, this will now ensure we continue to work at the highest possible standard of Recruitment for our Job Seekers and our Client Companies.

It has been a long time coming, but the NRF are to be commended for their continued effort to reward and encourage this Best Practice in Recruitment Industry in Ireland’.

Fine Gael to end Hospital Consultant massive earnings

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Fine Gael Health SpokespersonAccording to the irishhealth.com, Fine Gael’s health spokesperson Dr James Reilly has warned that massive earnings by some hospital consultants would end under the party’s universal health insurance (UHI) plan.

Under both Fine Gael and Labour’s health service plans, everyone in the population would be insured for the same level of health cover and there would be equal access to care in both private and public hospitals for everyone based on medical need alone, with free GP care also being provided for the entire population.

Labour has proposed that €75 million be clawed back from consultant salaries to help pay for free GP care, while Sinn Fein has said consultants’ public salaries should be reduced from the current €180,000 plus to €150,000.

Dr Reilly told a health policy conference in Dublin that the days of consultants taking a large State salary and an even larger private practice payout on top of that, would come to an end under Fine Gael.

“People who are earning €180,000 to €200,000, who have studied for six years to get a good Leaving Cert and then go to medical college for six years, and then train for a further 10 years – I think most people acknowledge that people who have done that have developed an expertise and are entitled to a good income. And I believe €180,000 is a bloody good income.”

“I am saying very clearly that the days of people who think they can take €180,000 out of the State and another €300,000 from the VHI will be over under Fine Gael, because it’s just not sustainable. It may upset some people, but this is a society we live in and no-one can set themselves above the rest of society. We are all taking pain and we will all share in the gain at the other end, and that is the Fine Gael position.”

The conference, attended by representatives of the main political parties, was organised by the Irish Dental Association, Irish Medical Organisation and Irish Pharmacy Union.

Dr Reilly said there was sufficient money being spent on health even with the cutbacks to give us an excellent service. “We just have not been spending the money in the right way.”

He said under the Fine Gael insurance plan healthcare would be run by private operators and there may be some not for profit global insurance operators who might enter the market as well under UHI.

“With the entire community insured we will be doubling the size of the market and that will attract more competition and I believe help control costs.”

Labour’s health spokesperson Jan O’Sullivan told the meeting that we have to reform the health service in order to get better value for money. She said Labour would introduce free GP care at the point of delivery within four years.

She said under Labour’s universal insurance scheme cover would be provided by private health insurers as well as a public health insurer. A public health insurer body would be set up but people would be allowed to keep their private insurance as well.

Both Fine Gael and Labour plan to reinstate the dental scheme for medical card patients, the meeting was told. However, Fine Gael said the funds were not there at the moment to reinstate dental care subsidies for those who pay PRSI, while Labour said it would review the matter.

Fianna Fail health spokesman Barry Andrews said he would challenge Fine Gael to outline what the true cost of universal health insurance would be. He said a couple in the Netherlands in a similar scheme had to pay €5,000 per annum for health cover.

He said he doubted whether the two-tier system would end under UHI , as people would still be able to purchase additional benefits other than those provided under the State-controlled insurance scheme.

Ruadhan MacAodhain of Sinn Fein told the meeting that his party opposed UHI as they saw it as a direct privatisation of the HSE, and the party would limit consultant salaries to €150,000 a year.

Late nights are a ticking time bomb for Health

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Late nights bad for our healthAccording to Irishhealth.com,  people who are often deprived of sleep or have disrupted sleep patterns may be at an increased risk of suffering serious health problems, including heart attacks and stroke, new evidence suggests.

Today’s economy has significant stress, loss of jobs, financial difficulty and this will have an effect on our sleep.

In a new job or in current times, people want to prove themselves and this can lead to working long hours.

Stress and worry for our job searchers can also reduce sleep drastically and leave our job seekers feeling exhausted which can be reflected at interview.

UK researchers looked at studies involving 470,000 people in eight countries, including the UK, Sweden and the US. They found that poor sleep can have serious, long-term health implications.

“If you sleep less than six hours per night and have disturbed sleep, you stand a 48% greater chance of developing or dying from heart disease and a 15% greater chance of developing or dying of a stroke,” explained lead researcher, Prof Francesco Cappuccio, of the University of Warwick.

He said that the current trend for late nights and early mornings ‘is actually a ticking time bomb for our health’ and advised people to ‘act now to reduce the risk of developing these life-threatening conditions’.

“There is an expectation in today’s society to fit more into our lives. The whole work/life balance struggle is causing too many of us to trade in precious sleeping time to ensure we complete all the jobs we believe are expected of us.

“But in doing so, we are significantly increasing the risk of suffering a stroke or developing cardiovascular disease resulting in, for example, heart attacks.”

The study pointed out that chronic short sleep produces hormones and chemicals in the body, which increase the risk of developing heart disease and strokes, as well as other conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes.

However, Prof Cappuccio did warn of the implications of going too far the other way, as sleeping overly long – more than nine hours at a stretch – may also be an indicator of illness, including cardiovascular disease.

“By ensuring you have about seven hours sleep a night, you are protecting your future health and reducing the risk of developing chronic illnesses. The link is clear from our research – get the sleep you need to stay healthy and live longer,” he said.

Details of these findings are published in the European Heart Journal