Cliniques Saint-Luc Brussels Careers, Salaries & Jobs

The Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc are a university hospital in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, working in partnership with UCLouvain. They opened in 1976 and celebrated their 50th anniversary in October 2026.

Saint-Luc describes itself as the university reference hospital in French-speaking Belgium.

Saint-Luc has 973 licensed beds. In December 2025 it had 6,226 staff, or 4,548 full-time equivalents. In 2025 it recorded 33,530 inpatient stays, 470,832 consultations, 77,564 emergency admissions, 20,744 operations and 1,547 births.

The hospital is known for transplantation, with 210 transplants in 2025, and for specialised institutes including the Institut Roi Albert II for cancer and haematology, the Institut des Maladies Rares and the Institut Cardiovasculaire.

For an internationally trained professional, Saint-Luc is a large French-speaking employer: its jobs page says its staff come from 72 nationalities. It does not publish an international recruitment programme. You need Belgian recognition of your diploma and the FPS visa to practise, with French at the level your profession requires, before you can work clinically.

Founded

1976 (first patients on 23 August 1976)

Leadership

• Philippe Leroy, Administrateur délégué
• Pr Jean-Pascal Machiels, Directeur médical
• Joëlle Durbecq, Directrice du Département Infirmier

Accreditations

• International accreditation from Accreditation Canada International (ACI Canada), as Saint-Luc reports

Switchboard

+32 2 764 11 11

• Liver and kidney transplantation

  210 transplants in 2025: 115 liver transplants and 95 kidney and pancreas transplants.

• Cancer and haematology

  The Institut Roi Albert II brings Saint-Luc's oncology and haematology together, with 16 multidisciplinary groups of specialists discussing each patient's case.

• Rare diseases

  Saint-Luc runs a dedicated Institut des Maladies Rares.

• Cardiovascular care

  The Institut Cardiovasculaire; the operating suite has 4 rooms for cardiovascular surgery and 3 cardiac catheterisation rooms, one paediatric.

• Neurosurgery

  2 operating rooms for neurosurgery, one linked directly to an MRI scanner.

• Dialysis

  15,935 in-hospital dialysis sessions, 14,862 home dialysis sessions and 3,240 self-dialysis sessions in 2025.

• Saint-Luc's careers pages do not describe a programme for recruiting internationally trained doctors or nurses, and we found no page on visa or relocation support. Its jobs page says staff come from 72 nationalities and that applications must be made through the jobs site; applications sent by email are not processed.
• Most vacancies on jobs.saintluc.be are for nurses and midwives, with smaller numbers of medical, medico-technical and paramedical posts. You can also leave a spontaneous application and set a job alert.
• Saint-Luc lists benefits including hospitalisation insurance for you and your family, 28 days of leave, recognition of previous seniority linked to the role, an end-of-year bonus, free secure parking and supplements for irregular hours above the sector minimum.
• International clinicians usually reach Belgian hospitals by first obtaining diploma equivalence, a language certificate and the FPS Public Health visa to practise on their own. In Brussels, the employer then applies to the Brussels-Capital Region for a work permit if you need one.

• French. Saint-Luc works in French. The FPS Public Health requires a language certificate less than four years old in French, Dutch or German: C1 (written expression B2) for doctors, dentists, pharmacists and physiotherapists, B2 for general care nurses and midwives. Examples of accepted French certificates include DELF, DALF, TCF and TEF. The exam must cover all four skills.

• Diploma equivalence. With a diploma from outside the EEA, apply for equivalence to the Service des équivalences of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (or NARIC-Vlaanderen if you choose the Flemish Community), then for the FPS visa to practise with your language proof and certificates of good professional conduct.

• Doctors also register with the Order of Physicians (Ordre des médecins) and need recognition of their specialist title before practising as specialists.

• Work permit. Non-EU nationals need a single permit, applied for by the employer in the region where they will work; for Saint-Luc that is the Brussels-Capital Region, which runs its own procedure and thresholds.

• EU, EEA and Swiss nationals need no work permit but still need recognition and the FPS visa, including language proof.

1. 1

   Reach the French level for your profession

   C1 for doctors and B2 for nurses and midwives, with a certificate less than four years old covering reading, listening, writing and speaking.
2. 2

   Apply for equivalence of your diploma

   Apply to the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles equivalence service (equisup.cfwb.be) for the diploma that gives you the right to practise.
3. 3

   Obtain the FPS visa to practise

   Send the FPS application with your equivalence, language certificate and certificates of good professional conduct. Doctors then register with the Ordre des médecins.
4. 4

   Apply on jobs.saintluc.be

   Create a candidate account, apply to an advertised post or leave a spontaneous application. Saint-Luc does not process applications sent by email.
5. 5

   Interview and offer

   Saint-Luc's recruitment team works with the clinical teams to match you to posts; questions about an application go to its recruitment phone line, 02 764 15 90.
6. 6

   Work permit if needed

   If you are not an EU, EEA or Swiss national, the hospital applies to the Brussels-Capital Region for your single permit before you start.

• IFIC category 14

  €3,447.52 to €5,419.17 a month

  Seniority 0 to 35 years, 1 July 2026. UZ Leuven places bachelor nurses and midwives in this category.

• IFIC category 15

  €3,692.71 to €5,798.91 a month

  Seniority 0 to 35 years, 1 July 2026.

• Annual leave at Saint-Luc

  28 days

  Listed on Saint-Luc's jobs page with an end-of-year bonus.