Healthcare professions
Recognition of foreign educational qualifications in Baden-Württemberg
Recognition of foreign educational qualifications in Baden-Württemberg
Are you planning to work permanently in Germany in a healthcare profession? In this case you will need a certificate. Please submit an application to the Stuttgart Regional Council.
In addition to the nursing professions and the social professions, you also need a certificate for the following healthcare professions:
Anaesthesia technical assistance
Dietary assistant
Occupational therapy
Speech therapy
Masseur and medical bath attendant
medical technology for functional diagnostics
medical technology for laboratory analysis
medical technology for radiology
Emergency paramedic
Operating theatre assistant
Orthoptist
Physiotherapy
Pharmaceutical-technical assistant
Podiatry
- Application form completed with date and signatureCurriculum 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 native 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 /document type OB (for submission to an authority),
Purpose: Recognition of healthcare profession (or the profession applied for),
Recipient authority: Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, Ref. 95.2, for the attention of 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
Diese Unterlagen sollten Sie erst später einreichen, da sie zum Zeitpunkt der Erteilung der Urkunde nicht älter als 3 Monate sein dürfen.
- Nachweis deutscher Sprachkenntnisse B2 einer ALTE-zertifizierten Sprachschule (zum Beispiel Goethe, Telc, ÖSD) im Original
If you have any questions or need help with your application, please feel free to contact these counselling services:
Counselling services with residence in Germany
IQ Network Baden-Württemberg
Counselling for recognition
Counselling services without residence in Germany
Central Service Point for Professional Recognition ZSBA
recognition@arbeitsagentur.de
Contact us
Recognition of foreign qualifications in the healthcare sector
Stuttgart Regional Council
Department 95.2
State Recognition Centre for Healthcare Professions (LAfG BW)
Ruppmannstraße 21
70565 Stuttgart
Please submit application documents by post only.
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