TUM Klinikum Careers, Salaries & Jobs

TUM Klinikum is the university hospital of the Technical University of Munich. It was formed in August 2024 when Klinikum rechts der Isar and the Deutsches Herzzentrum München merged.

Its profile describes around 45 clinics and institutes, more than 1,300 beds and 8,500 staff, with more than 67,000 inpatient and day cases and around 306,000 outpatient cases a year.

The hospital traces its history to 1834. Today it is a maximum-care centre in central Munich and part of the Comprehensive Cancer Center München, one of Germany's leading oncology centres.

The hospital's international support is aimed at nurses: the nursing directorate names the integration and recognition of nurses with international qualifications as a focus. An integration management team helps with entry, arrival and residence, prepares nurses for the knowledge test or recognition, and coordinates with the authorities, nursing schools and HR. Doctors, midwives, therapists, pharmacists and other health professionals apply to advertised posts once their German recognition is in place.

TUM Klinikum's careers site says pay follows the TV-L, with special rules for doctors, and mentions a university allowance and, where it applies, a Munich allowance.

Founded

2024 (TUM Klinikum formed on 1 August 2024; Klinikum rechts der Isar dates from 1834)

Run by

Klinikum der Technischen Universität München, a public-law institution (Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts)

Leadership

• Dr. med. Martin Siess, Ärztlicher Direktor und Vorstandsvorsitzender
• Marie le Claire, Kaufmännische Direktorin und stellvertretende Vorstandsvorsitzende
• Silke Großmann, Pflegedirektorin
• Prof. Dr. med. Markus Krane, Ärztlicher Leiter, TUM Klinikums Deutsches Herzzentrum

Switchboard

+49 89 4140-0

• Cancer care (CCC München)

  Part of the Comprehensive Cancer Center München, which the hospital describes as one of 13 leading oncology centres in Germany.

• Cardiology and cardiac surgery

  The Deutsches Herzzentrum München is now one of TUM Klinikum's two sites.

• Surgery

  Nearly 47,000 operations a year, according to the hospital's profile.

• Obstetrics

  About 1,700 births a year.

• Clinical toxicology and poison centre

  Home of the Munich poison emergency service (Giftnotruf München).

• Digital medicine and AI

  The hospital lists artificial intelligence, digitalisation, robotics and molecular biology as strategic priorities.

• TUM Klinikum's nursing directorate says it focuses on the successful integration and recognition of nurses with international qualifications.
• Its integration management helps with administrative processes for entry, arrival and residence, prepares nurses for the knowledge test or professional recognition, and coordinates between the German authorities, nursing management, nursing schools and HR. Contact: [email protected].
• The hospital also advertises nursing roles as integration and recognition managers, who work on the wards and coordinate recognition and integration for international colleagues.
• TUM Klinikum's pages do not name overseas recruitment drives or agencies. International nurses usually apply through the job portal, ideally with a recognition decision from the Bavarian Landesamt für Pflege. There is no stated recruitment programme for doctors.

• Doctors trained outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland apply to the Regierung von Oberbayern for the Approbation or a temporary Berufserlaubnis. The Bavarian service portal says German must be shown at C1 professional level, and the Kenntnisprüfung is required if equivalence cannot be established.

• Nurses need recognition from the Bayerisches Landesamt für Pflege. Bavaria accepts a B2 certificate or the B2-oriented nursing language test (FSP-Pflege). Where gaps are found you choose between an adaptation course and a knowledge test.

• TUM Klinikum asks for a CV, certificates and your professional licence (Berufsurkunde) with every application.

• If you still have to complete recognition, section 16d of the Residence Act covers a residence permit for qualification measures and exams such as the Kenntnisprüfung, for up to 24 months and extendable by up to 12 months, and a recognition partnership (section 16d(3)) that lets you work for a named employer while you complete recognition. Both require at least 'sufficient' German, which section 2 of the Act defines as level A2.

• Once you hold the Approbation, a Berufserlaubnis or full nursing recognition, the usual routes are the skilled worker residence permit or the EU Blue Card (section 18g). Employers can also use the fast-track procedure for skilled workers (section 81a) with the local foreigners authority. None of this is legal advice: check your own case with the German mission and the foreigners authority.

1. 1

   Reach the German level you need

   B2 or the FSP-Pflege for nurses; a C1 medical language test for doctors.
2. 2

   Start recognition

   Nurses apply to the Landesamt für Pflege; doctors to the Regierung von Oberbayern.
3. 3

   Apply online

   Apply through the job portal at karriere.tumklinikum.de. Only advertised posts are open. Include your CV, certificates and Berufsurkunde.
4. 4

   Interviews

   A first interview, online or in person, is followed for some posts by a second interview or a trial day on the ward (Hospitation).
5. 5

   Offer and onboarding

   After the offer, new staff have an induction in their department and a central welcome event held each month.
6. 6

   Visa

   Apply for the visa that matches your stage of recognition at the German mission.

Monthly amounts

• Doctor in training (Ä1), TV-Ärzte (TdL)

  €5,792.90 to €7,436.05

  Years 1 to 6, gross, 40-hour week, from 1 April 2026 to 31 August 2027 (provisional table).

• Specialist (Ä2), TV-Ärzte (TdL)

  €7,645.72 to €9,576.69

  Rises at years 4, 7, 9, 11 and 13 as a specialist.

• Senior physician (Ä3), TV-Ärzte (TdL)

  €9,576.69 to €11,265.33

  Steps from year 1, 4, 7 and 10.

• Registered nurse (KR 7), TV-L

  €3,475.61 to €4,285.00

  Steps 2 to 6, gross, from 1 April 2026 to 28 February 2027. KR 7 covers nurses with at least three years' training in the matching role.

• Nurse with specialist further training (KR 9), TV-L

  €3,968.65 to €4,641.37

  For example intensive care or anaesthesia nursing after a completed Fachweiterbildung.