Mater Dei Hospital Careers, Salaries & Jobs

Mater Dei Hospital in Msida is Malta's main public acute general hospital, run by the Ministry for Health. It describes itself as a teaching hospital that trains medical, nursing and allied health students, and as a National Coordination Hub affiliated to 24 European Reference Networks for rare diseases.

Its cardiology and its diabetes and endocrinology departments are formally recognised as Centres of Excellence.

The hospital's own pages list a full range of acute services: an emergency department, intensive care, neonatal and paediatric intensive care, cardiac and cardiac surgical wards, neurosciences, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, plastic and burns surgery, urology, a renal unit and a hyperbaric unit.

Mater Dei does not recruit staff itself. The Ministry for Health's People Management Division explains that healthcare vacancies follow the rules of the whole Maltese public service: external calls are published in the Government Gazette and on the Public Service Recruitment Portal, and most healthcare calls require registration with the relevant Maltese council before you apply.

For internationally trained staff this has two consequences. The calls are open to Maltese and EU citizens, their family members, UK nationals with withdrawal agreement residence, and third-country nationals with long-term resident status in Malta or certain related permits. And Malta's registration route for non-EU professionals is time-limited and runs in English, so registration is achievable, but it does not by itself make you eligible for a public post.

Run by

Ministry for Health, Government of Malta

Accreditations

• Cardiology and the diabetes and endocrinology departments formally recognised as Centres of Excellence (hospital's own page)
• National Coordination Hub affiliated to 24 European Reference Networks for rare diseases (hospital's own page)

Switchboard

+356 2545 0000

• Cardiology and cardiac surgery

  A Centre of Excellence with a cardiac catheterisation suite, coronary care, cardiac intensive care and cardiac medical and surgical wards.

• Diabetes and endocrinology

  Formally recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the hospital.

• Emergency and intensive care

  An emergency department, an intensive therapy unit and a neonatal and paediatric intensive care unit.

• Neurosciences

  Neuro medical and neuro surgical wards.

• Obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics

  A central delivery suite, three obstetric wards, a gynaecology ward, paediatric wards and paediatric day care.

• Plastic and burns surgery

  A dedicated plastic surgery and burns unit.

• Hyperbaric and renal medicine

  A hyperbaric unit and a renal unit are among the hospital's departments and units.

• Rare diseases

  A National Coordination Hub affiliated to 24 European Reference Networks.

• Mater Dei's own website links its careers footer to the Government Recruitment Portal and does not describe an international recruitment programme, relocation support or an OSCE or adaptation scheme of its own.
• The Ministry for Health's People Management Division says healthcare vacancies follow the rules of the whole public service. External calls are published in the Government Gazette, on the Government web portal, on the Public Service Recruitment Portal and in the Join the Public Service app. Calls for posts usually lead to indefinite appointments; calls for positions are contracts for a definite period.
• The 2026 calls we read, for Staff Nurse and for Higher Specialist Trainee posts, set the same eligibility: citizens of Malta or other EU states, people with equal treatment rights in employment, their family members, third-country nationals with long-term resident status in Malta (or a residence permit under regulation 18(3) of those regulations) and their family members, and UK nationals with a withdrawal agreement residence document. Appointing anyone other than a Maltese citizen may need an employment licence, and Jobsplus is consulted.
• In practice this means the public calls do not describe hiring nurses or doctors directly from abroad. Non-EU professionals who register with the Medical Council or the Council for Nurses and Midwives usually start with an employer that can obtain a single permit for them, such as a private hospital; we did not find an official statement on how many work at Mater Dei.
• The Staff Nurse call does accept candidates who do not yet speak Maltese, provided they pass the University of Malta's Basic Medical Maltese for the Healthcare Profession (Part 1) within the probation period: one year for degree entrants, six months for diploma entrants, with a one-time six-month extension for diploma entrants.

• Registration with the relevant council before you apply, unless the call says otherwise: the Medical Council Malta for doctors (full registration for specialist trainee calls), the Council for Nurses and Midwives for nurses and midwives, or the CPCM for allied health professions.

• Eligibility under the call: EU citizenship or equal treatment rights, or for third-country nationals long-term resident status in Malta, a related residence permit, family member status or a UK withdrawal agreement residence document.

• Maltese and English. The Staff Nurse call asks for proficiency in both, allows Maltese to be obtained during probation through the Basic Medical Maltese exam, and asks for proof of English such as a nursing qualification taught in English or a valid certificate as listed in the call.

• For specialist trainee posts, the relevant Certificate of Completion of Basic Specialist Training (CCBST) from Malta's Specialist Accreditation Committee or an equivalent recognised by it.

• If you are a non-EU citizen without long-term residence, a work and residence permit through an employer, usually the single permit applied for by the employer with Identità.

1. 1

   Register with your Maltese council

   Apply to the Medical Council, the Council for Nurses and Midwives, the Pharmacy Council or the CPCM using the form for non-EU qualifications. Doctors may sit the MCMSE; non-EU nurses complete a bridging course and receive temporary registration for 24 months.
2. 2

   Check you meet the eligibility rules

   Read section 4 or 5 of the call. If you are not an EU citizen, check whether you hold long-term resident status in Malta or one of the other listed statuses before you apply.
3. 3

   Find the call

   Search the Healthcare, Medical and Caring category on recruitment.gov.mt. Calls give the salary scale, duties, eligibility and the closing date and time.
4. 4

   Apply online

   Register on the Public Service Recruitment Portal and submit your application with your registration certificate, qualifications and proof of language before the closing time. Late applications are not accepted.
5. 5

   Attend the selection interview

   A selection board assesses candidates and publishes the result. The People Management Division posts the latest selection results on its website.
6. 6

   Complete probation and the Maltese requirement

   Staff nurses who do not yet have Maltese must pass Basic Medical Maltese Part 1 at the University of Malta before confirmation; course and exam fees are paid by the candidate but can be claimed through the CPD scheme.

• Staff Nurse progression

  €28,701.02 rising by €447.33 to €31,385

  Salary Scale 9, 2026, with the warrant to practise and five years of service.

• Higher Specialist Trainee

  €37,509 a year

  Maximum of Salary Scale 6 in 2026; substantive Senior Staff Grade starts at €35,123.68.

• Staff Nurse with diploma (MQF Level 5): €23,816 a year, rising by €354 to €25,940Salary Scale 12, 2026. Moves to Scale 10 after three years of satisfactory service.
• Staff Nurse with degree (MQF Level 6): €27,055.98 a year, rising by €407.67 to €29,502Salary Scale 10, 2026.
• Higher Specialist Trainee specialisation allowance: €6,530 a year (years 1 and 2), €7,050 from year 3Paid in 13 instalments.