You need to include an ANZSCO code when you complete your application in the Skills assessment portal.
This code will decide which area of nursing or midwifery you can use on your visa application. The code you select will need to match your work experience.
Note: ANMAC is not allowed to give you any advice about which code is best for your visa.
See a list of ANZSCO codes.
Understanding ANZSCO codes
If you're not sure which ANZSCO code to choose, visit:
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- the Home Affairs Skilled Occupations List.
If you need more help, please contact the Department of Home Affairs or a registered Migration Agent.
You can:
- pick a code that is supported by your work experience
- pick a general code if you do not have work experience.
You can not:
- pick a code that does not match your work experience
- pick a code because you want to work in a specific area
- pick a code only because it supports your visa application.
If you have work experience
Choose a specific ANZSCO code, and provide professional reference documents that show:
- 3 months and 260 hours (or more) of paid work experience (within the last 5 years) that matches your code
- accurate information about your clinical skills and competencies in your area of work.
After you select your code and upload supporting references in the Skills Assessment portal we will:
- check your references and work experience and make sure it matches the code you chose
- include an ANZSCO code that matches your education and work experience on your Letter of Determination.
Note: If you choose a code which does not match your experience we will need to contact you and it may delay your application.
If you do not have work experience
Choose one of these general codes that apply to you:
- 254499 Registered Nurse (Not Elsewhere Classified)
- 254111 Midwife
- 411411 Enrolled Nurse.
Job specific codes are:
- 134212 Nursing Clinical Director - Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates nursing programs and clinical service delivery in a range of settings. Maintains standards of care, provides leadership and contributes to health service planning
- 254111 Midwife - Provides care to women during pregnancy, labour, childbirth and postnatally in a range of settings.
- 254211 Nurse Educator - Designs, pl ans, implements, and evaluates the delivery of nursing education.
- 254212 Nurse Researcher - Designs, conducts and evaluates nursing and multidisciplinary research projects.
- 254311 Nurse Manager - Manages a health service unit/ward in a range of settings, supervising staff, managing resources and monitoring quality, clinical standards and development of nurses.
- 254411 Nurse Practitioner - Provides advanced nursing care; orders tests and can diagnose; can prescribe care, medicines and therapies.
- 254412 Registered Nurse (Aged Care) - Provides nursing care to the older person in a range of settings – residential aged care facilities, in hospitals and at home.
- 254413 Registered Nurse (Child and Family Health) - Provides nursing care to children and their families from birth to school age with a focus on prevention, early detection and early intervention. Includes immunisation and education.
- 254414 Registered Nurse (Community Health) - Provides nursing care in the home and also provides health counselling, screening and education to people in the community.
- 254415 Registered Nurse (Critical Care and Emergency) - Provides nursing care to critically ill patients with acute illness or following injury or surgery in an emergency department, high dependency unit or intensive care unit.
- 254416 Registered Nurse (Developmental Disability) - Provides nursing care to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a range of settings.
- 254417 Registered Nurse (Disability and Rehabilitation) - Provides nursing care to patients recovering from injury and illness in a range of settings and facilitates patients with disabilities to live more independently.
- 254418 Registered Nurse (Medical) - Provides nursing care to patients with conditions requiring medical intervention in a range of settings, including hospitals and day procedure units.
- 254421 Registered Nurse (Medical Practice) - Provides clinical care to patients within a general practice environment.
- 254422 Registered Nurse (Mental Health) - Provides nursing care to patients with mental health illness, disorder and dysfunction and emotional difficulties, distress and crisis.
- 254423 Registered Nurse (Perioperative) - Provides care to patients before during and after surgery, assists surgeons and anaesthetists and monitors patients in post-anaesthetic recovery.
- 254424 Registered Nurse (Surgical) - Provides nursing care to patients with illness and injury that requires surgical intervention, including hospitals and day procedure units.
- 254425 Registered Nurse (Paediatrics) - Provides nursing care to children of all ages (including neonates), primarily in hospitals.
- 254499 Registered Nurse (Not Elsewhere Classified) - This code covers Registered Nurses not elsewhere classified.
- 411411 Enrolled Nurse – only applies to enrolled nurses registered in Australia.
If you believe your experience is not represented by one of the codes listed above, or you do not yet have any work experience, please use this code:
- 254499 Registered Nurse (Not Elsewhere Classified)
If you have any questions relating to ANZSCO codes you can call our office on (+61) 02 6257 7960