Cluj County Emergency Hospital Careers, Salaries & Jobs

The Cluj-Napoca County Emergency Clinical Hospital (Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență Cluj-Napoca, SCJU Cluj) is one of the largest hospitals in Romania and has the role of a level IA regional emergency hospital.

It handles emergencies for the north-west region and includes a UPU emergency department and SMURD.

The hospital states 1,542 beds in all medical and surgical specialties and more than 3,000 employees. It works as a pavilion hospital in more than 33 separate buildings, some over 100 years old, located between 30 metres and 5 kilometres from the central building.

Its 41 clinical and non-clinical wards and units cover anaesthesia and intensive care, cardiology and interventional cardiology, general surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery and reconstructive microsurgery, vascular surgery, diabetes, endocrinology, gastroenterology, nephrology, neonatology, neurosurgery, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, oncology, ENT, orthopaedics, psychiatry and rheumatology. It works in medical education and research, including the IMOGEN research institute.

The present institution dates from 1 July 1973 as Cluj County Hospital and has carried its current name since a Ministry of Health order of 2 November 2004. For an internationally trained professional it is a major academic employer outside Bucharest, but it hires through public competitions in Romanian, after recognition and membership of the professional body.

Founded

1973

Leadership

• Claudia Gherman, Manager
• Caius-Mihai Breazu, Medical Director (Director Medical)
• Eva Kis, Director of Nursing (Director Îngrijiri)

Switchboard

+40 264 592 771

• Emergency medicine and SMURD

  A level IA regional emergency hospital for north-west Romania, with a UPU emergency department and SMURD.

• Interventional cardiology

  Cardiology and interventional cardiology, part of the national priority action for treating patients with acute myocardial infarction.

• Interventional stroke care

  The hospital takes part in the national priority action for interventional treatment of patients with acute stroke.

• Trauma and critical care

  Priority actions for critically ill patients with acute traumatic injuries and for adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive care.

• Transplantation

  The hospital runs work under the national programme for transplantation of human organs, tissues and cells.

• Neonatology

  Neonatal intensive care, newborn screening for phenylketonuria and congenital hypothyroidism, and retinopathy of prematurity screening and laser therapy.

• Hearing implants

  The national programme for treating deafness with implantable hearing devices.

• SCJU Cluj does not publish an international recruitment programme, relocation help or visa sponsorship offer, and it names no recruitment agency. Its website and announcements are in Romanian.
• Vacancies are posted in the employment (Angajări) section of its website as public competitions, as is standard for Romanian public hospitals.
• The hospital publishes its salary transparency list; the latest when we checked showed salary income as at 30 September 2026, listing each post with its base salary and supplements. It is a scanned document, so read it directly for the posts you are interested in.
• International applicants usually reach the hospital after Romanian recognition: CNRED for the basic medical degree, the Ministry of Health and a joint commission with the College of Physicians of Romania (CMR) for specialist titles, CMR membership, and an IGI work permit applied for by the employer. Nurses and midwives are regulated by the OAMGMAMR.

• Legal status to practise. The CMR checklist for third-country specialist titles asks for proof of Romanian or EU citizenship or another legal status allowing you to work in Romania, and the government norms require you to fall within Article 376 of Law 95/2006.

• Recognition. CNRED recognises third-country medical studies; the Ministry of Health, with a joint commission including CMR members, recognises specialist titles under Government Decision 764/2017. If training is not equivalent you sit an aptitude test and need at least 7.00 in each part.

• Professional body. Doctors need a CMR membership certificate; nurses and midwives register with the OAMGMAMR, which you should contact directly for its third-country procedure.

• Romanian. Specialist recognition requires a Romanian language certificate or language passport; English tests do not count.

• Work permit and visa. The employer applies to the IGI for a work permit; the post must not be fillable by Romanian, EU or EEA citizens, and annual quotas apply. You then apply for a long-stay employment visa and, after arrival, a single permit or EU Blue Card.

1. 1

   Check your eligibility

   Confirm your status under Article 376 of Law 95/2006 with the CMR before you collect documents.
2. 2

   Recognise your degree and specialty

   Apply to CNRED for your medical studies and to the Ministry of Health for your specialist title, with legalised Romanian translations and documents no older than 3 months where required.
3. 3

   Get a Romanian language certificate

   Obtain a certificate of Romanian or a language passport for the recognition file.
4. 4

   Join the CMR or OAMGMAMR

   Doctors apply for CMR membership after the recognition order; nurses and midwives go to the OAMGMAMR.
5. 5

   Apply to a competition

   Follow the Angajări section on scjucluj.ro for competition announcements, and check the salary transparency list for the post's base salary.
6. 6

   Work permit and visa

   If you are not an EU citizen, the hospital applies to the IGI for your work permit before you apply for the long-stay employment visa.

• Doctors at SCJU Cluj

  Set by Law 153/2017

  See the hospital's salary transparency list.

• Nurses (asistent medical) at SCJU Cluj

  Set by Law 153/2017

  See the hospital's salary transparency list.

• Latest salary transparency list

  As at 30 September 2026

  Published on scjucluj.ro.

• Visa means of support: At least the national minimum gross salaryFor the whole visa period, as the IGI states.