Primary Health Organisation Manager (ANZSCO 134213)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Primary Health Organisation Manager on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Primary Health Organisation Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Primary Health Organisation Manager is a VETASSESS Group A occupation and one of only three codes in this family reaching the full eight-visa house — every subclass from Employer Nomination through to the independent points-tested and graduate routes, carried on MLTSSL and CSOL together. VETASSESS excludes Medical Administrator, Health Practice Manager, and Health and Welfare Services Managers nec from this code by name, distinguishing it as the management of a primary-health organisation specifically rather than a medical practice or a general health-and-welfare service.

Where these applications come unstuck

The three-way boundary with Medical Administrator and Health and Welfare Services Managers nec is the trap here, and it runs in both directions — each of the three codes excludes the other two on its own page. An applicant managing a primary-health organisation whose duties are genuinely broader, touching clinical administration or a wider welfare-services remit, needs to check which of the three descriptions their actual employment evidence supports, because the visa reach between them varies sharply: this code reaches eight subclasses, Medical Administrator reaches five, and the nec code reaches only four.

An honest read on this pathway

The strongest pathway in the whole health-management cluster of this family — full visa house, MLTSSL membership, no state-specific registration overlay found in this research beyond the general medical-setting considerations that apply across the sector. The cost of getting the nomination wrong against its two named neighbours is real and material given how differently each of the three reaches the visa system, so the boundary is worth checking carefully rather than assumed from a job title alone.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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