Evangelismos Hospital Athens Careers, Salaries & Jobs

The General Hospital of Athens Evangelismos - Polykliniki is a public law entity (NPDD) of the Greek National Health System (ESY), supervised by the 1st Health Region of Attica.

Its history page traces it to a nursing school founded in 1875 and records the opening of the hospital on 25 March 1884. It became a public hospital in 1983.

The hospital is organised into three medical sectors, two surgical sectors, a mental health sector and a laboratory sector, plus cross-sector departments such as emergency and day care. Its surgical departments include cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, neurosurgery, urology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT, plastic surgery and oral and maxillofacial surgery, and its medical departments include nephrology, medical oncology, pulmonology, dermatology and rheumatology. It also runs the Polykliniki unit at 3 Peiraios Street.

For an internationally trained applicant, the key point is how ESY hires. Permanent doctor posts (Consultant B, Consultant A, Director and Coordinating Director) are filled through Ministry of Health procedures that require Greek or EU citizenship, and EU citizens must show Greek at B2 or an equivalent. The hospital also publishes calls for doctors on service contracts and for auxiliary staff on its Staff Positions page.

Whatever your profession, you need Greek recognition before any of this. Doctors with a non-EU degree pass the DOATAP medicine exams and then obtain the certificate to practise from the Panhellenic Medical Association (PIS); nurses go through DOATAP and register with the Hellenic Nurses Association (ENE), which asks non-Greek citizens for C1 Greek.

Founded

1884

Run by

Greek National Health System (ESY), supervised by the 1st Health Region of Attica

Leadership

• Αναστάσιος Γρηγορόπουλος (Anastasios Grigoropoulos), Διοικητής (Governor)

Switchboard

+30 213 2041000

• Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery

  A department of the 1st Surgical Sector.

• Neurosurgery

  A neurosurgical clinic in the 1st Surgical Sector; the hospital also advertised a neurosurgeon on a service contract in 2025.

• Internal medicine

  Several internal medicine departments across three medical sectors; the 2024 call sought two Coordinating Directors in internal medicine.

• Nephrology and medical oncology

  Departments of the 1st Medical Sector, alongside dermatology, pulmonology and rheumatology.

• Plastic and oral and maxillofacial surgery

  Departments of the 2nd Surgical Sector, with orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT and dentistry.

• Mental health

  A dedicated mental health sector.

• Emergency care

  An emergency department among the cross-sector departments; the hospital takes part in the Athens on-call rota.

• Evangelismos does not describe any international recruitment programme. Its Staff Positions page (Θέσεις Προσωπικού) lists calls for ESY doctors, calls for interest for doctors on service contracts paid by invoice, lists for subspecialty training and calls for seasonal or auxiliary staff, all in Greek.
• Permanent ESY doctor posts are advertised by the hospital but applications go through the Ministry of Health's online platforms. The October 2024 call for three Coordinating Directors, for example, took applications on esycoordinatingdirectors.moh.gov.gr, asked for a DOATAP equivalence for degrees from abroad, the certificate to practise, the specialty title and a medical association certificate, and asked EU citizens for Greek at B2 or a certificate from the Central Health Council (KESY) committee.
• The Ministry procedure for ESY Consultant and Director posts requires Greek or EU citizenship. This means non-EU doctors cannot hold a permanent ESY post at Evangelismos unless they acquire Greek or EU citizenship.
• Other routes exist but are narrower. Auxiliary doctor lists accept third-country nationals who hold long-term residence, an EU Blue Card or certain other residence cards. Hospitals also hire doctors on fixed-term service contracts; at AHEPA in Thessaloniki such calls accept third-country nationals with those residence cards and a Greek language certificate. Check each Evangelismos call for its own eligibility rules.
• We could not confirm from an official source whether non-EU citizens can hold permanent nursing posts at Evangelismos; nursing posts in ESY hospitals are filled through public procedures, and the nurse registration route through DOATAP and ENE applies in all cases.

• Doctors with a non-EU degree: DOATAP recognition after passing its medicine exams in Athens, then the certificate to practise from the Panhellenic Medical Association (PIS), then registration with the Athens Medical Association.

• Nurses: DOATAP equivalence with any compensatory measures, registration with the Hellenic Nurses Association (ENE) with a C1 Greek certificate, then the practice certificate from the Region.

• Citizenship for permanent ESY doctor posts: Greek or EU. EU citizens show Greek at B2 or a KESY certificate, unless they studied in Greece or hold a DOATAP equivalence.

• For non-ESY routes such as auxiliary lists, a residence status that allows the post, such as long-term residence or an EU Blue Card.

• Fluent Greek in practice: calls, applications, exams and clinical work are all in Greek.

1. 1

   Get recognition and a Greek licence

   Pass the DOATAP exams (doctors) or complete the DOATAP compensatory measures (nurses), then obtain the PIS certificate to practise or ENE registration. This normally comes long before any application.
2. 2

   Reach the required Greek level

   Plan for at least B2 Greek for doctors and C1 for nurses registering with ENE. The Centre for the Greek Language runs the Certificate of Attainment in Greek.
3. 3

   Watch the Staff Positions page

   Open Προκηρύξεις, then Θέσεις Προσωπικού, at evaggelismos-hosp.gr. Each call is a PDF with the posts, requirements, deadline and how to apply.
4. 4

   Apply on the right platform

   ESY doctor posts are applied for online on the Ministry of Health platforms named in the call, such as esycoordinatingdirectors.moh.gov.gr or esydoctors.moh.gov.gr, with the required documents uploaded as PDFs.
5. 5

   Check eligibility for each call

   ESY posts need Greek or EU citizenship. Service contracts and auxiliary lists can have different rules, so read the general requirements in each call before applying.
6. 6

   Follow the selection results

   ESY candidates are assessed and scored by the hospital's evaluation board for ESY doctors, and results are posted on the hospital site.

• ESY Coordinating Director, step 1

  €1,903 basic a month

  Law 4472/2017, Article 138 as enacted; each of 16 steps adds €67.

• ESY Consultant A

  90% of the Coordinating Director step

  Law 4472/2017, Article 138.

• ESY Consultant B

  78% of the Coordinating Director step

  Law 4472/2017, Article 138.

• Specialty trainee

  63% of the Coordinating Director step

  Law 4472/2017, Article 138.

• Hospital employment allowance: €230 (trainee) to €340 (Director) a monthLaw 4472/2017, Article 139 as enacted, plus separate on-call pay.
• Public hospital nurses: Unified public sector pay scaleLaw 4354/2015, by education category and step.