• Application form or online application
• Registry office documents on name, place and date of birth (e.g. birth/marriage certificate, extract from the family register)
• Proof of citizenship: passport, identity card or residence certificate
• Current, complete curriculum vitae in tabular form with precise details of your educational and professional background
• Proof of education: Certificates, diploma, licence to practise, registration, overview of subjects and studies, specialist examination, specialist internship and so on
• Further proof of qualifications, if applicable
• Proof of relevant professional experience (e.g. job reference, work book, index)
• if you are resident
• in Germany: Certificate of your main residence in Baden-Württemberg. You can obtain this from the registration office responsible for your place of residence. (Copy of the registration);
• abroad: Proof that you intend to practise your profession in Baden-Württemberg. Suitable documents must be submitted for this purpose, e.g. confirmation from the future employer
• Proof of the German language skills required for practising the profession from a recognised language institute (can be submitted later)

The competent authority will request the following documents in the course of the procedure:

• For proof of personal reliability (not for social workers or social pedagogues):
• If you are resident in Germany: documents from your home country and from your country of training that prove your personal reliability, as well as a German certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority
• If you live abroad: Documents from your home country and your country of training that prove your personal reliability
• Current medical certificate stating that you are not unfit for the profession with date, stamp and signature of the doctor (not for social workers or social pedagogues)

The competent authority may request further documents.

Note: Please only send certified copies and never originals! A copy in the original language and a copy of a German translation are required for documents in a foreign language. Translations must be made by a publicly appointed or sworn interpreter or translator or by a publicly appointed or sworn interpreter or translator. Submitted documents cannot be returned.