Employment and work for foreigners in Spain

Working as a foreigner: homologation and recognition of qualifications (including healthcare ones), training and employability programmes for migrants.

• Accreditation of work experience in Spain: get your skills officially recognised Accreditation of work experience in Spain: who qualifies as a foreigner, how much experience and which documents you need, and where to apply by region.
• Care worker certificate Spain: free SSCS0108 and SSCS0208 courses and who can take them Care worker certificate Spain: SSCS0108 (home care, 600 h) and SSCS0208 (care homes, 450 h). Who can take them free, how to find a course, and the arraigo rules.
• Cleaning certificate Spain: SSCM0108 course, hours and who can join Cleaning certificate Spain: SSCM0108 is level 1 and has 230 hours. Who can enrol for free, where to find it, and other cleaning certificates.
• COOPLAB Cádiz: free entrepreneurship programme for women, 18 places COOPLAB Cádiz: free entrepreneurship programme for women, September to December 2026, 18 places. Run by DISMOV with the Provincial Council of Cádiz.
• Forklift licence Spain: there is no official one, what counts and free courses Forklift licence Spain: there is no official one. What employers accept (COML0110, UNE 58451), who can join free SEPE courses and how to look for them.
• Free courses for immigrants in Spain: by job, region and status Free courses for immigrants in Spain: by job, region or status. What the SEPE asks for, what counts for arraigo and links to the card that fits your case.
• Free courses Madrid unemployed: who can join and how to apply Free courses Madrid unemployed people can take: who qualifies (resident, temporary protection, asylum seeker), how to apply for a place and what aid exists.
• Free courses in Andalusia for unemployed people: who can join and where to look Free courses in Andalusia for unemployed people: who can enrol, how to register with the SAE, and how to search by province for in-person or online courses.
• Free LABORA courses Valencia: who can enrol and how to sign up Free LABORA courses Valencia: who can enrol (resident, temporary protection, asylum), how to add a course to your job-seeker record and where to search.
• Free SEPE courses Spain: who can enrol and how to find them Free SEPE courses Spain: who can enrol (resident, temporary protection, asylum seeker, no papers), how to register as a job seeker and where to search.
• Free courses in Spain without a residence permit: CEPA and NGOs Free courses Spain without residence permit: SEPE courses need a right to work. What is open: adult education (CEPA), NGO programmes and arraigo training.
• Free SOC courses Catalonia: who can join and how to apply Free SOC courses Catalonia offers: who can join (resident, temporary protection, asylum seeker), how to find a course and apply, and how to list one for arraigo.
• Free hospitality courses Spain: kitchen, restaurant and bar Free hospitality courses Spain offers with a certificate: HOTR0108 (kitchen), HOTR0208 (restaurant and bar). Who can enrol, where to look, food handler card.
• Free care training in Cádiz: Cuidar con Futuro, 100 hours Free care course in Cádiz, Cuidar con Futuro: 100 hours (32 in person and 68 online), 30 places, diploma and job pool. Runs until December 2026.
• Healthcare qualification recognition in Spain: exams for non-EU specialists Theoretical-practical exams to recognise (homologate) non-EU healthcare specialist qualifications in Spain. A prior assessment report is required; up to 2 attempts.
• Register as a job seeker in Spain as a foreigner: NIE and work permit Register as a job seeker in Spain as a foreigner: requirements (NIE and right to work), steps by region and cases of arraigo, asylum and temporary protection.
• SARA programme (CONVIVE Fundación CEPAIM): employment pathway for migrant women SARA programme by CEPAIM, funded by the Instituto de las Mujeres: an employment pathway for migrant women aged 16+. 2026 centres and how to check conditions.
• Real Decreto 325/2026: minimum training requirements for the recognition of EU healthcare qualifications (nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine) Spain updates the minimum training requirements for automatic recognition of EU qualifications in nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine (RD 325/2026).
• Regulation (EU) 2026/1047 establishing an EU Talent Pool The EU creates the Talent Pool: a platform matching workers from outside the EU with shortage-occupation jobs. Each member state joins voluntarily.

General information, not individual legal advice. Check the official source and consult a professional for your case.