Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg Careers, Salaries & Jobs

The Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) was created in 1976 and is defined by law as a centre for diagnosis, care, treatment and hospitalisation, with research and teaching missions.

It has four buildings on two sites, CHL Centre, CHL Maternité and CHL KannerKlinik at Belair and CHL Eich at Eich, plus an outpatient site, CHL Potaschbierg, in Grevenmacher since 2023.

Its 2025 annual report gives 2,995 staff in more than 50 occupations, making the CHL the eleventh largest employer in Luxembourg. In 2025 it recorded 25,831 inpatient stays, 15,159 day-hospital stays and 651,392 outpatient contacts, about 210,256 patients in all, and 3,103 births at its maternity hospital.

The CHL focuses on acute and serious illness, medical and surgical emergencies and intensive care, and holds several national services, including the national children's hospital services at the KannerKlinik. It is an academic teaching hospital of Saarland University (since 2008), takes part in teaching for medical students at the University of Luxembourg and, in 2025, obtained Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation for the third consecutive time.

For an internationally trained professional, the CHL is a multinational workplace: staff are of 42 nationalities, and many live in France, Belgium and Germany. It does not publish an international recruitment programme. You need a Luxembourg licence to practise, which requires B2 French or German, and a residence permit if you are a non-EU national.

Founded

1976

Leadership

• Dr Martine Goergen, Directeur Général
• Dr Guy Berchem, Directeur Médical
• Daniela Collas, Directeur des Soins

Accreditations

• Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation, obtained for the third consecutive time in 2025, according to the CHL's 2025 annual report

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• Children's hospital (KannerKlinik)

  Houses national paediatric services, including the national paediatric surgery service and the national child psychiatry service; 44,919 paediatric emergency attendances in 2025.

• Maternity and high-risk pregnancy

  3,103 births in 2025. The CHL says it is the only hospital in the country that takes very high-risk pregnancies when birth is imminent before 32 weeks.

• Cancer centre (Kriibszentrum)

  A clinical pole for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers and diseases of the bone marrow, blood and lymphatic system.

• Neurosurgery

  The national adult neurosurgery service, complemented in 2025 by a new centre of excellence in paediatric neurosurgery.

• Nuclear medicine and PET

  The national PET centre at the CHL opened two new digital PET-CT scanners in December 2025; 15,584 nuclear medicine procedures in 2025.

• Rare diseases

  The CHL hosts a national hub for rare diseases, with teams affiliated to European reference networks.

• The CHL does not describe a programme for recruiting internationally trained doctors or nurses, and we found no page on visa or relocation support. Recruitment runs through its career site (CHL Career on Talentsoft), which lists medical, nursing and administrative vacancies and accepts spontaneous applications.
• The CHL's workforce is international. Its 2025 report counts 42 nationalities among staff and shows that many employees live across the border in France, Belgium and Germany. Of the new staff it hired in 2025, 183 lived in Luxembourg, 138 in France, 60 in Belgium and 8 in Germany.
• Medical vacancies in October 2026 included specialist posts in child psychiatry, neuropaediatrics, neonatology, anaesthesia, orthopaedics and neuroradiology, as well as resident and specialty trainee (MEVS) posts. Nursing vacancies included emergency, anaesthesia and intensive care, operating theatre and psychiatric nursing.
• The CHL also takes trainees on placement, including people completing a reorientation placement to renew their right to practise a regulated health profession in Luxembourg. It does not provide housing for nursing trainees.

• Licence to practise from the Ministry of Health and Social Security. Doctors pay €450 per licence; nurses and other health professionals pay €75. Doctors' files go to the Collège médical for an opinion.

• Doctors with a non-EU diploma must first be recognised in an EU member state on an equal footing with Annex V diplomas of Directive 2005/36/EC, and include that recognition and licence in their Luxembourg application.

• Nurses with qualifications outside the automatic EU recognition list apply to the Ministry of Research and Higher Education (MESR) for recognition of their qualifications, which may lead to compensation measures, before applying for the licence.

• Language: B2 in French or German, unless your mother tongue is French, German or Luxembourgish or you can prove the level through training or work in those languages; otherwise a B2 certificate from an approved centre such as the INLL. Nurses must also understand one of Luxembourg's three administrative languages.

• Residence permit: non-EU nationals need a residence permit, for example as an EU Blue Card holder (contract of at least 6 months and pay at or above the regulated threshold) or as a salaried worker after the employer declares the vacancy to ADEM.

1. 1

   Check your recognition route

   Read the Guichet.lu page for your profession. Non-EU doctors need recognition in another EU country first; nurses apply to the MESR unless their diploma is automatically recognised.
2. 2

   Reach B2 in French or German

   Gather proof of B2 or book a certificate at an approved centre such as the INLL.
3. 3

   Apply for your licence on MyGuichet.lu

   Submit the licence application online with your criminal record extract, health certificate, diplomas and language proof, and pay the fee by card.
4. 4

   Search CHL vacancies

   Use the CHL Career site on Talentsoft for medical, nursing and administrative posts, or leave a spontaneous application.
5. 5

   Interview and offer

   Apply through the vacancy and follow the CHL's process. Ask which collective agreement and career step your contract uses.
6. 6

   Residence permit

   If you are not an EU, EEA or Swiss national, plan the residence permit with the employer: Blue Card or salaried worker permit, starting with a long-stay visa.