UKC Maribor Careers, Salaries & Jobs

University Medical Centre Maribor (UKC Maribor) is a public health institution founded by the Republic of Slovenia.

It provides secondary and tertiary care for Maribor, Pesnica, Ruše, Ormož, Lenart, Ptuj and Slovenska Bistrica, and some subspecialist services for the whole of north-eastern Slovenia and Koroška.

Its 2025 work programme gives 3,784 employees on 31 December 2024, including 729 doctors and 1,807 nursing staff, and 42,698 acute inpatient cases in 2024. The hospital describes itself as one of the largest healthcare institutions in Slovenia and the most important in the north-east.

Maribor's city hospital dates from 1799. The hospital became a teaching hospital in the 1980s, and with the founding of the University of Maribor's Faculty of Medicine on 2 October 2003 it became a full clinical hospital and teaching base for medical and health sciences students. Cardiac surgery, started in 1995, is described by the hospital as the trigger for its development into a tertiary centre.

For an internationally trained applicant, UKC Maribor publishes no international recruitment programme. Its 2025 work programme names a shortage of secondary-level nurses as its biggest hiring difficulty. It hires only through advertised vacancies and says it does not consider applications sent without a published vacancy.

Founded

1799

Run by

Republic of Slovenia

Leadership

• Anton Crnjac, Acting Director General (V. d. generalnega direktorja UKC)
• Nataša Marčun Varda, Medical Director (Strokovna direktorica UKC)
• Jernej Mori, Acting Assistant Director General for Nursing (V. d. pomočnika generalnega direktorja UKC za področje zdravstvene nege)

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• Surgery

  The Surgery Clinic covers abdominal, vascular, thoracic, plastic and reconstructive surgery, trauma, urology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics and anaesthesiology with intensive care.

• Cardiac surgery and cardiology

  Cardiac surgery began in 1995, alongside invasive and interventional cardiology, and the hospital describes it as central to its development.

• Internal medicine

  The Internal Medicine Clinic covers cardiology and angiology, haematology and haemato-oncology, gastroenterology, endocrinology and diabetology, nephrology and dialysis, and rheumatology.

• Gynaecology and perinatology

  The Clinic for Gynaecology and Perinatology includes reproductive medicine and gynaecological endocrinology, gynaecological and breast oncology, and perinatology.

• Independent medical departments

  Separate departments cover otorhinolaryngology and cervicofacial surgery, eye diseases, pulmonary diseases, neurological diseases, and infectious diseases and fevers.

• Paediatrics

  The Paediatrics Clinic provides care for children in north-eastern Slovenia.

• Emergency centre

  The hospital runs an emergency centre (Urgentni center) for its region.

• UKC Maribor does not publish an international recruitment programme, a page for foreign applicants or relocation support. Its employment page says it hires mainly health workers, with recruitment run by the HR department together with the clinics and departments.
• Vacancies are published on the notice board of the Employment Service of Slovenia (Maribor office) or on the hospital's own notice board. The hospital says it does not process applications that arrive without a published vacancy and destroys them without reply, so speculative CVs do not work here.
• Its 2025 work programme says the hardest posts to fill are secondary-level nurses, because of a shortage on the labour market. It plans to keep using scholarships, co-funding of study, careers fairs and student work to find staff.
• International applicants therefore reach UKC Maribor by getting their qualifications recognised under the ZPPKZD, learning Slovenian, and answering an advertised vacancy. Under the ZPPKZD, a public health institution that offers you a job pays for one Slovenian course and one language test.

• Recognition: a third-country qualification must be recognised by the Ministry of Health under the ZPPKZD. The decision can require up to five supplementary exams, a full or partial traineeship and the professional exam, within a deadline of no more than three years.

• Registration and licence: doctors and dentists register with the Medical Chamber of Slovenia, and nurses and midwives with Zbornica - Zveza. Doctors, dentists, graduate nurses and graduate midwives also need a licence.

• Slovenian for doctors: C1 for speaking and B2 for writing, for doctors in direct contact with patients.

• Slovenian for nurses: C1 speaking and B2 writing for graduate nurses and midwives in direct contact with patients, with B2 accepted until 31 December 2027. Nursing technicians and nursing assistants need B1 until the same date. English tests do not count.

• Application documents: the hospital asks for personal details, a short CV and proof of meeting the advert's conditions, such as your diploma, professional exam certificate and specialisation certificate.

• Residence and work: a single residence and work permit tied to the employer, or an EU Blue Card for qualifying highly qualified work.

1. 1

   1. Get your qualification recognised

   Apply to the Ministry of Health under the ZPPKZD with sworn Slovenian translations, and complete any supplementary exams, traineeship and professional exam it sets.
2. 2

   2. Reach the required Slovenian level

   Doctors need C1 speaking and B2 writing. Graduate nurses and midwives need B2 until the end of 2027, and nursing technicians and assistants B1.
3. 3

   3. Watch for advertised vacancies

   Check the Employment Service of Slovenia for UKC Maribor posts. The hospital does not consider applications sent without a published vacancy.
4. 4

   4. Apply by the deadline

   Send your personal details, a short CV and proof that you meet the conditions to Univerzitetni klinični center Maribor, Kadrovski oddelek, Ljubljanska ulica 5, 2000 Maribor, within the deadline in the advert.
5. 5

   5. Interview

   Candidates who meet the conditions are invited to interview at the HR department with a representative of the department. Nursing candidates are interviewed by the assistant director for nursing.
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   6. Offer, permit and contract

   Selected candidates receive a draft employment contract. Apply for the single residence and work permit or an EU Blue Card, then sign the contract.

• Lowest pay grade

  €1,277.72 a month gross

  Set at the 2025 minimum wage, as the government states for the new pay scale.

• Highest basic salary

  €8,821 a month gross

  Government figure for the top of the 2025 scale.

• Adjustment from 1 April 2026

  +0.9%

  Pay grade values and basic salaries rose by 0.9% under Article 104 of the ZSTSPJS.

• Doctors and nurses: Set by the pay grade of the postAsk the hospital for the grade and basic salary.
• Trainees and specialty trainees: Employed and paid during trainingThe ZPPKZD says you are employed on a trainee, sekundarij or specialty trainee post while completing supplementary conditions.