Nurse Manager (ANZSCO 254311)

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 Nurse Manager 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 Nurse Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Nurse Manager is the most senior-reading of ANMAC's three leadership codes, and ANMAC's own description reflects that: it "manages a health service unit/ward in a range of settings, supervising staff, managing resources and monitoring quality, clinical standards and development of nurses." The two ANMAC pathways apply here as elsewhere in this trio — Full skills assessment for applicants registered in one of seven listed countries without needing prior Australian registration, or Modified skills assessment for applicants who already hold current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, the Nursing Council of New Zealand, or the Midwifery Council of New Zealand. Code selection is evidence-driven against that description, not self-declared.

Where these applications come unstuck

This is the sharpest seniority inversion this whole family carries. Nurse Manager sits on the STSOL alone, reaching four visas with no 186 and no 482 — four visas fewer than Nurse Educator and Nurse Researcher, the two codes it manages in a hospital org chart, which both carry STSOL plus CSOL. An applicant whose actual professional reference could honestly support Nurse Educator or Nurse Researcher instead of Nurse Manager gains real visa access by nominating accordingly, but ANMAC's own warning applies just as hard in that direction: a code the evidence does not support means ANMAC "will need to contact you and it may delay your application," so the nomination still has to follow the reference, not the visa list.

An honest read on this pathway

ANMAC does not itself confer the right to practise for this code any more than for the other two: "registration is managed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) through Ahpra," not by ANMAC. What is specific to Nurse Manager is the visa-list gap once registration and the migration assessment are both settled — it reaches STSOL states, 407, 491 and 494, but not the sponsored 482 route or the 186 permanent-employer-sponsored route that Nurse Educator and Nurse Researcher both carry. Someone planning around an employer-sponsorship route specifically should confirm early which of the three codes their actual role and evidence will support, because the difference is not cosmetic.

Registration and assessment both need paperwork. Nursing and health applications run two document trails at once — the skills assessment and professional registration. The Document Vault keeps one register of what you hold, what each body has asked for, and what is still outstanding.

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