Entrepeneurs assistant
Foreign professional qualification Recognition of health professions
If you have obtained your degree in a healthcare professional abroad, you can have the equivalence of your degree checked with the German degree by the competent authority.
Health professions include the following occupations:
- Elderly caregiver
- Dietitian
- Occupational therapist
- Health and nurse
- Health and paediatric nurses
- Midwife/maternity nurse
- Speech therapist/speech therapist
- Masseur and medical bathattendant
- Medical-technical/laboratory assistant
- Medical-technical/radiology assistant
- Medical-technical assistant in functional diagnostics
- Orthoptist
- Pharmaceutical-technical assistant
- Physiotherapist
- Podologist
And currently (until 31.12.2018) the following further training courses:
- Specialist in intensive care and anaesthesia
- Specialist in oncological care
- Specialist in psychiatric care
- Specialist for surgical and endoscopic care
- Specialist in hygiene in care
- Specialist for management tasks in nursing
- Nursing service manager, nursing service manager
- Specialist in social psychiatric care
- Specialist Early Aids - Family Midwife or Specialist Early Aids - Family Maternity Caregiver, Specialist Early Help - Family Health and Child Nurse
The responsibility lies with the Lower Saxony State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family.
- Request for a declaration of equivalence of health professionals for EU and third-country nationals
- Tabular and signed CV in German
- Simple copy of proof of identity (IDENTITY card/passport)
- Your diploma in your home language and in German translation as well as, if applicable, a certificate of entitlement to practise in your country of origin in your home language and in German translation
(Note: In the case of nursing training or midwifery/maternity care training within the EU, it is sufficient to present the diploma /your entitlement in your home language.) - Detailed overviews in your home language and in German translation from which the theoretical and practical subjects with the scope of the training /study program emerge.
(Note: In the case of nursing training or midwifery/maternity care training within the EU, these documents are initially unnecessary.) - Detailed overviews in your home language and in German translation about the internships completed during the training /study with information on the activity characteristics and the number of hours.
(Note: In the case of nursing training or midwifery/maternity care training within the EU, these documents are initially unnecessary.) - An individualized curriculum with broken-down content
(Note: In the case of nursing training or midwifery/maternity care training within the EU, these documents are initially unnecessary.) - If you do not yet have a residence in Lower Saxony, but intend to carry out an activity in Lower Saxony corresponding to one of your applied professional titles: documents which are the seriousness of your declaration of intent in Lower Saxony to work. want to prove. For example: job applications, letters of application or contact with an appointed recruitment agency
- Other qualifications, provided that they are suitable for establishing equivalence in your home language and in German translation
- If the application procedure is not to be handled through you personally, but for example through a recruitment agency or another person of your trust, a power of attorney in the original is required by you personally. If the costs of the application procedure, including any necessary expert opinions, are borne by the authorised person, the application shall also be supplemented by a corresponding confirmation of the authorised person in the original.
Fees apply (depending on the amount of work).
Deadlines may have to be observed. Please contact the appropriate body.
The processing time is a maximum of 4 months from the existence of all documents relevant to the decision.
respective professional laws
The application can be made electronically. The submission of the application and the attachments (pdf format) is possible without an electronic signature by notification e-mail to the responsible authority.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family
Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Linie6PLus)
21339 Lüneburg
