Policlinico Gemelli Careers, Salaries & Jobs

The Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS is the teaching hospital of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome.

It opened on 10 July 1964 and was part of the university for more than 50 years; since 1 August 2015 it has been run by a private non-profit foundation set up by the Istituto Toniolo and the Università Cattolica.

Its homepage lists 1,526 beds, 5,322 employees, 94,919 patients discharged, 82,076 emergency department visits, 4,110 births, 53,701 operations and about 400 transplants. In 2018 the Ministry of Health recognised it as a research hospital (IRCCS) for personalised medicine and innovative biotechnologies. In Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals 2026 it is ranked first in Italy.

For an internationally trained applicant, Gemelli's legal status matters. Public hospitals in Italy fill posts through public competitions (concorsi) with a nationality rule; Gemelli describes itself as a private non-profit foundation and advertises vacancies on its own careers portal, with separate lists for doctors, health professions such as nurses and midwives, and other staff.

That does not remove the national rules. Whatever your profession, whether you are a doctor, nurse, midwife, physiotherapist or radiographer, you need your title recognised by the Ministry of Health (or one of the temporary regional derogations), registration with the relevant professional Ordine after an Italian language check, and the right to work. Gemelli's careers pages do not describe an international recruitment programme.

Founded

1964

Run by

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, a private non-profit foundation set up by the Istituto Toniolo and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Leadership

• Daniele Piacentini, Direttore Generale (Director General)
• Andrea Cambieri, Direttore Sanitario (Medical Director)
• Carmen Nuzzo, Responsabile, SITRA (head of the nursing, technical and rehabilitation service)

Accreditations

• Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation, listed on the hospital's accreditations page
• ISO 45001:2018 occupational health and safety certification (certificate 281098-2018-AHSO-ITA, certified by DNV)
• ISO 50001:2018 energy management certification
• Gender equality certification under UNI/PdR 125:2022
• FACT accreditation for the UNICATT cord blood bank, held since November 2019
• JACIE accreditation for the haematopoietic stem cell transplant programme, first obtained in 2012 and confirmed in 2025

Awards and rankings

• Newsweek World's Best Hospitals 2026: ranked first in Italy (Newsweek with Statista)

Switchboard

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• Comprehensive Cancer Center

  Listed on the homepage among Gemelli's centres, alongside the Gemelli ART advanced radiation therapy centre opened in 2017.

• Transplantation

  The homepage reports about 400 transplants.

• Emergency and paediatric emergency care

  The emergency department (DEA) opened in 2002; the paediatric emergency department, opened in January 2016, covers Rome and the wider region.

• Digestive diseases (CEMAD)

  The Digestive Disease Center, set up at the end of 2017 for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of digestive diseases.

• Ageing medicine (CeMI)

  The Centre for Ageing Medicine, one of the centres listed on the homepage.

• Respiratory diseases (CEMAR)

  The centre for respiratory diseases listed among Gemelli's centres.

• Rare diseases and poison control

  A rare diseases service and a poison control centre (Centro Antiveleni) are listed among the hospital's centres.

• Personalised medicine and innovative biotechnologies

  The two fields for which the Ministry of Health recognised Gemelli as an IRCCS in 2018.

• Gemelli's careers pages (Lavora con noi, with an English version) list current searches by area: doctors, non-medical health staff, health professions (nurses, physiotherapists, laboratory and radiology technicians, midwives), research, technical and administrative staff, support staff, PNRR projects, scholarships and internships. Applications go through an online candidate area.
• We found no international recruitment programme, relocation package, language course or OSCE support described on Gemelli's own pages. Overseas applicants apply to advertised posts in the same way as Italian candidates, and the adverts and selection are in Italian.
• Because Gemelli is a private foundation, its vacancies are not public competitions. The nationality rule in article 38 of Legislative Decree 165/2001, which limits most public posts to EU citizens and certain residence statuses, is written for public administrations. You still need recognition, registration and a work permit, which an employer in Italy can support through the work authorisation (nulla osta).
• Italy also has a temporary route: Decree-law 34/2023, article 15, lets public and private health facilities employ health professionals with a foreign qualification until 31 December 2029 under regional rules, outside the Ministry recognition procedure. Whether Gemelli uses it for a given post is not stated on its pages, so ask before you apply.
• Non-EU doctors joining a training or updating programme that involves clinical work can also be authorised temporarily under article 39-ter of the immigration law, on an application by the host research hospital or university hospital. This allows clinical work only within that programme, for up to two years.

• Recognition of your title by the Ministry of Health (DGPROF) if you qualified outside the EU, with any compensatory measure it sets; doctors apply on form D1 and nurses on form D2. Alternatively, a regional authorisation under the derogation that runs to 31 December 2029.

• Registration in the albo of the provincial Ordine (OMCeO for doctors, OPI for nurses), which only happens after the Ordine has checked your Italian and your knowledge of the rules on practice. Ordini set their own format; OMCeO Milano, for example, asks for B2 and C1 from 1 September 2026.

• Italian for daily work: job adverts, selection and clinical work at Gemelli are in Italian.

• A work and residence permit: nurses hired by health facilities can enter outside the annual quotas under article 27 of the immigration law, and highly qualified posts can use the EU Blue Card. The employer applies for the nulla osta.

• For specialist posts, recognition of your specialist title, which the Ministry only handles after your basic title is recognised.

1. 1

   Start your recognition early

   Apply to the Ministry of Health for recognition of your title, with the Declaration of Value from the Italian consulate and Italian translations. The Ministry's stated processing time is four months from a complete file, and it may set an aptitude test in Rome.
2. 2

   Reach working Italian

   Plan for at least B2 Italian before you register with an Ordine; some Ordini ask for C1. Gemelli's adverts and interviews are in Italian.
3. 3

   Check Gemelli's current searches

   Open the Lavora con noi pages at policlinicogemelli.it and choose your area, for example doctors or health professions. Read each advert for the qualifications, registration and contract it asks for.
4. 4

   Apply through the candidate area

   Register in Gemelli's online candidate area, upload your CV and documents, and apply to the specific search. Keep your recognition decree and Ordine registration ready, or explain where you are in the process.
5. 5

   Register with the Ordine

   Register with the Ordine of the province where you will live or work, normally the Rome Ordine for Gemelli, after its Italian check. If you do not register within two years of the Ministry decree, the decree loses its effect.
6. 6

   Sort out the permit before you start

   If you are outside the EU, the employer applies for the nulla osta at the Sportello Unico per l'Immigrazione; you then apply for the visa and, after arrival, sign the contratto di soggiorno and request the residence permit.

• Nurse, public health service basic pay

  €24,918.93 a year, plus a 13th month

  CCNL Comparto Sanità 2022-2024, from 1 January 2024. Reference only; check Gemelli's own contract.

• Nursing specificity allowance (public sector)

  €87.79 a month

  From 1 January 2025, CCNL Comparto Sanità.

• Hospital doctor (dirigente medico), public basic pay

  €50,005.77 a year

  CCNL Area Sanità 2022-2024, including the 13th month, from 1 January 2024. Reference only.

• Medical specificity allowance (public sector)

  €9,466 a year

  Including the 13th month, from 2025.

• Gemelli's own pay: Set by the foundationNot published on its careers pages; confirm in the offer.