Region of Southern Denmark seeks Arabic/Kurdish Kurmanji interpreter

Do you thrive with exciting tasks among fantastic colleagues in a multicultural environment with room to breathe, where high professionalism and great collegial care fill everyday life?

Can you deliver sublim service and show flexibility to benefit the region's patients? And can you come to Kolding Hospital?

We are now seeking two Arabic/Kurdish Kurmanji interpreters for positions of 32 hours per week.

You will provide video and telephone interpreting for our patients from the interpreting center at Kolding Hospital. The interpreters are scheduled from 7.00 to 16.00 on weekdays.

Your background and competences

• You are proficient in spoken Danish and Arabic/Kurdish Kurmanji.
• You can read and write Danish.
• You have good communication skills, and you may have experience in interpreting, preferably within the health sector or another public organization, for example the police or the courts
• You are educated at a minimum upper secondary level or equivalent
• You are responsible and diligent, including reliable attendance
• You are approachable, service-minded and presentable
• You are mentally robust and able to handle difficult conversations
• You value collaboration and collegial sparring, and you thrive in cultural differences across religions and nationalities
• You can uphold the health service’s confidentiality and are keen to work in a large innovative organization within the health sector
• You can come to Kolding Hospital, as all interpretations take place herefrom

Key information about the workplace

Tolkecenter Syddanmark provides planned and emergency interpreter services to all hospitals in the Region of Southern Denmark as well as practitioners – and specialists. The interpretations take place exclusively as video and telephone interpreting from the Interpreting Center at Kolding Hospital.

The Interpreting Center consists of 55 permanently employed interpreters within a range of different languages, 28 on-call interpreters, 1 manager, 1 deputy manager, 1 AC-employee and 8 secretaries. The Southern Denmark Interpreting Center is organizationally anchored at Kolding Hospital as part of the Service Department.

The Service Department consists of 7 main sections distributed across Sygehus Lillebælt’s 3 locations in Vejle, Middelfart and Kolding. The sections are Kitchen, Porters, Patient Service, Cleaning Unit, Sterile Central, Interpreting Center and Main Depots. We are 460 engaged and dedicated employees.

In the Service Department our vision is: ”Service with meaning – together we create valuable service for the patient with a smile”. We are the small cogwheels that make the big gears run so that our patients and relatives can have a good experience at the hospital. We help give patients and relatives a good first impression and make a special effort to make each other better.

Salary and terms of employment

Salary and terms of employment for the position follow the Administration and IT staff, etc. - agreement 32.01.1 - salary as of 1.4.2026. The starting salary for the position can be found via the following link: See starting salary for positions in Region of Southern Denmark

In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

A child-safeguarding certificate will be obtained.

Application and application deadline

You must submit your application and CV electronically via the recruitment system, where you describe your educational background and your relevant work experience.

The application deadline is 19 November 2026. Start as soon as possible.

Language tests and interviews

You must pass an oral test in Danish and Arabic/Kurdish Kurmanji.

We will conduct the tests and interviews in week 48.

Further information

If you want to know more about the positions, you are welcome to contact the Deputy Chief of the Interpreting Center Southern Denmark Susanne Amsted at telephone 6161 4058 or email [email protected] . You can also contact the Head of Function Mikkel Rudolf at telephone 29 25 88 94 or email [email protected]

At Lillebælt Hospital we put the patient first

At Lillebælt Hospital we work by the guiding star of putting the patient first and we always start from what is best for the patient.

This is described in our common Triangle, which is a synthesis of – and the backbone of everything we are and stand for at Lillebælt Hospital. Here there are also five patient promises that support what we mean when we say “The patient first”: We see you as a whole person, We respect your time, We give you security and care, We offer you precise and personal treatment, and the last promise: We ensure coherence in your treatment pathway.

See also www.sygehuslillebaelt.dk