Applications

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

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

Information on data protection at the State Examination Office and Recognition

• Application form completed with date and signature
• Curriculum vitae with date and signature
• 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: Recognition of healthcare profession (or the profession applied for),
  
  Recipient authority:
  Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart
  Referat 95.2
  for the attention of (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
  
  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)