Health Promotion Officer (ANZSCO 251911)

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 Health Promotion Officer 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 Health Promotion Officer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Health Promotion Officer as a Group A occupation, requiring "a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher, in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation," plus at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years. VETASSESS's own page names its exclusions directly: "Occupations not considered under this ANZSCO code: Health Diagnostic and Promotion Professionals nec Genetic Counsellor Orthotist or Prosthetist. These occupations are classified elsewhere in ANZSCO or are not at the required skill level." Health Promotion Officer sits on the STSOL alone, reaching four visas, with no CSOL membership.

Where these applications come unstuck

This is one of the sharpest list inversions in the whole family. The nec catch-all one line below it, Health Diagnostic and Promotion Professionals nec, carries STSOL plus CSOL and reaches 186 and 482 — visas this named, specific code cannot reach at all. VETASSESS's own exclusion rule is designed precisely to stop this being exploited: employment highly relevant to the specific Health Promotion Officer code cannot instead be assessed against the nec classification just because the nec code reaches more visas, regardless of whether the specific code is available for migration purposes. An applicant whose real experience matches this code has to nominate it, list position notwithstanding.

An honest read on this pathway

Health Promotion Officer's narrower list — STSOL only, four visas, no 186 or 482 — is the binding constraint for anyone whose work genuinely fits this occupation description rather than the broader nec catch-all. VETASSESS's own case-by-case rule for nec codes exists specifically to prevent using the catch-all as a workaround once real experience matches a named, more restricted code like this one. This guide did not find, and could not confirm, any registration or licensing requirement attached to Health Promotion Officer on the page reviewed for this research — no regulator is named, and none should be assumed.

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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