Stay in
Sri Lanka.
Practise properly.
Too many good clinicians leave because the equipment is old, the rosters are punishing and nobody invests in them. We are trying to be the hospital that gives you a reason to stay.
- Open right now
- 6 positions
- Application fee
- None, ever
- We reply
- To every application
- Part of
- A nine company group
The reasons people actually give for leaving
When a nurse or a technologist leaves for the Gulf, it is rarely only about money. It is the twelve hour shift with no relief, the equipment that has been broken for a year, and the sense that nobody is going to train you into anything better. We cannot fix a national salary market. We can fix those three things, and we have set the hospital up to try.
- Rosters published ahead of time, with swaps allowed between staff
- Equipment under service contract, and a real maintenance budget
- A named preceptor for every new graduate, for their first months
- Funded certification, from resuscitation courses upwards
- Salary discussed openly at interview, not sprung in the letter
- A safety concern gets a written answer, whoever raises it
Benefits, stated
plainly
No vague talk of a rewarding environment. These are the specific things in the letter of appointment.
Pay and statutory
- Salary benchmarked against comparable private hospitals
- EPF and ETF contributions paid correctly and on time
- Night shift and on call allowances stated in your letter
- Annual increment reviewed against performance, not seniority alone
Cover for your family
- Medical cover for you and your immediate family
- Outpatient consultations for staff at the hospital
- Staff rates on investigations, pharmacy and inpatient care
- Annual health check, and Hepatitis B vaccination for clinical staff
Leave that you can take
- Annual, casual and medical leave to statutory entitlement or better
- Maternity leave in full, with a phased return by arrangement
- Study leave for examinations if you are reading for a qualification
- Part time and school hours arrangements in several departments
Being trained into something
- Funded resuscitation and specialty certification for clinical staff
- Sponsored diploma and short course study for long serving staff
- Clinical teaching alongside the visiting consultants
- An internal route into theatre, laboratory or imaging as posts open
Every open role
6 of 6 positions
Nothing here that fits? Send your CV anyway. We keep applications on file and a good nursing officer or technologist rarely waits long for a vacancy.
Five steps,
and you hear
back at
each one
Being left in silence after an interview is the commonest complaint about hospital recruitment in this country. We answer everybody, including the people we do not take.
- 01
You apply
Day oneUse the form on this page, or email your CV with the role in the subject line. You get an acknowledgement from a person, not an automated reply.
- 02
Shortlisting
Two weeksThe head of department reads the applications, not only human resources. If you are not shortlisted you are told so, by email, rather than left waiting.
- 03
Interview
By arrangementA panel with the department head and a senior clinician, held at a time that does not force you to take leave from your current post. Salary is discussed at this stage, openly.
- 04
Practical assessment
Same visitFor clinical and technical posts, a short practical or scenario relevant to the actual job. You are shown the unit you would work in and can talk to the staff there.
- 05
Offer and references
One weekA written offer stating salary, allowances, roster pattern and probation terms. References are taken only after you accept in principle, and only from the referees you nominated.
Students and
new graduates
The group supports students entering medicine, and we take trainees directly at the hospital.
Support for medical students
The group supports students pursuing careers in medicine. Applications are handled by the group rather than by the hospital, and we will point you to the right contact if you write to us.
Medical studentsNursing and allied health training
We take students from nursing schools and allied health programmes for supervised clinical placements, with a named supervisor rather than being left to shadow whoever is free.
Institutions and studentsStart without experience
Front office, pharmacy assistant and support roles are genuinely open to school leavers, with full training given. Several coordinators here started at the front desk.
School leaversNobody here will ever ask you for money
There is a real trade in fake hospital and overseas nursing jobs in Sri Lanka, and it targets exactly the people who can least afford it. We do not charge application fees, registration fees, training deposits, agent commissions or visa processing money at any stage. If someone claiming to be from this hospital asks you for a payment, it is a fraud. Call us on the number below and tell us.
- We advertise only on this website, our own social media pages, and recognised job boards
- Genuine messages come from an address ending sjhospital.lk
- We never ask for an application fee, training deposit or agent commission
- We never ask for a payment to process a visa or an overseas placement
- We never ask for your bank details or your original certificates before an offer
- If in any doubt, telephone the hospital on 0117 84 84 84 and ask
Before you
apply
Fill this in
once
Nine fields, none of them decorative. We ask for a registration number because it is the first thing a department head looks for.
Send it in.
You will hear
from us.
Use the form above, or email your CV with the role in the subject line. Put your registration number and available start date at the top: it saves a round of emails.
- CV as PDF
- Registration number
- Two referees
- Earliest start date
St. Joseph Hospital is an equal opportunity employer. We select on merit and do not discriminate by ethnicity, religion, gender, marital status, age or disability, and we will make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process on request. Please do not include your NIC copy, photograph or health information in a first application; we ask for those only at offer stage.