Nursing healthcare professions and social professions | Education abroadApplications

The Stuttgart Regional Council is responsible for assessing the equivalence of foreign professional qualifications for the following healthcare and social professions: 

Anaesthesia technical assistant (pdf)
Assistant of curativ/special needs (pdf)
Curative care assistant/worker // special needs support worker/assistent (pdf)
Curative educator (pdf)
Dietary assistant (pdf)
Emergency paramedic (pdf)
Further training in nursing (pdf)
Geriatric nursing (pdf)
Geriatric nursing assistant (pdf)
Health and paediatric nurse (pdf)
Healthcare and nursing assistant (pdf)
Home and family carer (pdf)
Labour educator /Occupational education (pdf)
Masseur and medical bath attendant (pdf)
Medical technologist for laboratory analysis (pdf)
Medical technologist for radio diagnostics (pdf)
Medical technologist for radiology (pdf)
Midwife/maternity nurse (pdf)
Nursing specialist (pdf)
Occupational therapist (pdf)
Operating theatre assistant (pdf)
Orthoptist (pdf)
Pharmaceutical-technical assistant (pdf)
Physiotherapist (pdf)
Podiatrist (pdf)
Social pedagogue (pdf)
Social worker (pdf)
Speech therapist (pdf)
Youth educator/ Residential childcare worker (pdf)

All applications in German

Information on data protection at the State Examination Office and Recognition

• Application form completed with date and signature
• Curriculum vitae with date and signatur | fillable template (docx)
• Copy of passport, identity card or residence permit
• Copy of birth certificate + translation
• Copy of marriage certificate + translation
• Copy of diploma + translation
• Copy of certificates/ overview of grades + translation
• Copy of specialised internship (if possible with period and department) + translation
• Copy of professional examination/work licence or professional permit/registration + translation
• Copy of subject and timetable + translation
• Copy of the work certificates of your training occupation in the country of training, stating the period and name of the department + translation

The documents must be submitted in the national language and German translation - both as a copy.

• Personal declaration as to whether an application for recognition has already been submitted in Germany
• Credible representation that you will be working in Baden-Württemberg (confirmation of employment or employment contract of a potential employer)

Please refrain from using folders, envelopes and other packaging material.

• Certificate of good conduct from the home country/country of training in the original + translation
• Certificate of good conduct from Germany of document type OB (for submission to an authority),
  
  Purpose (Verwendungszweck):
  Anerkennung Gesundheitsfachberuf (or the profession applied for)
  
  Recipient authority (Empfängerbehörde):
  Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart
  Referat 98
  z. Hd. (name the responsible clerk) 
  Ruppmannstr. 21
  70565 Stuttgart
   
• Original medical certificate from a general practitioner stating that you are suitable for the profession of healthcare and nursing assistant
  Nursing professions (pdf / german) | Healthcare professions (pdf / german)
  
  You should submit these documents later, as they must not be older than 3 months at the time the certificate is issued.
   
• Original proof of German language proficiency B2 from a language school with ALTE certification as a full member (e.g. Goethe, Telc, ÖSD)