Nutritionist (ANZSCO 251112)

On the Short-term Skilled 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 Nutritionist on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

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 Nutritionist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS classifies Nutritionist as a Group A occupation, requiring a qualification comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree or higher in a highly relevant field, plus at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years — confirmed directly on VETASSESS's own page, which states "Nutritionist is a VETASSESS Group A occupation." Nutritionist sits on the STSOL alone, reaching four visas, with no CSOL membership and no 186 or 482 sponsored route. The single most important line on VETASSESS's own page for this code is an exclusion, not an inclusion: "Occupations not considered under this ANZSCO code: Dietitian - classified elsewhere in ANZSCO."

Where these applications come unstuck

The pitfall is assuming Nutritionist and Dietitian are interchangeable labels for the same qualification. They are not, in VETASSESS's own classification — Dietitian is explicitly excluded from this code and assessed separately, on a stronger list (STSOL plus CSOL, reaching 186 and 482, according to the occupation list itself). Whether "dietitian" carries any formal title protection in Australia, beyond being a distinct ANZSCO code, could not be confirmed from an authority source in this research — Dietitians Australia's own site was not reached — so that broader question should be checked directly with Dietitians Australia and, separately, whether either title is subject to any professional registration at all.

An honest read on this pathway

Nutritionist's narrower list position — STSOL only, four visas, no 186 or 482 — is the practical constraint that matters most for planning, since it rules out an employer-sponsored route through this specific code regardless of how the qualification and evidence stack up. This guide did not find, and could not confirm, any AHPRA registration or protected-title status attached to Nutritionist on the pages reviewed for this family. Before assuming either Nutritionist or the more strongly-listed Dietitian code better fits a given qualification, check the actual field-of-study content VETASSESS expects for each, since the two are assessed as genuinely separate occupations, not interchangeable versions of the same one.

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.

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