Registered Nurse (Child and Family Health) (ANZSCO 254413)

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 Registered Nurse (Child and Family Health) 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 Registered Nurse (Child and Family Health) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

As with every RN specialisation, ANMAC's qualification, English and Full/Modified pathway assessment is identical across codes. Nominating Child and Family Health specifically requires a professional reference a recent, documented period of paid work in child and family or maternal health nursing within ANMAC's recency window (confirm the current period with ANMAC) — community health centres, child health clinics or maternal and child health services, not general paediatric ward nursing.

Where these applications come unstuck

Applicants sometimes conflate this code with the separate Paediatrics code (hospital-based children's nursing) because both involve children — ANMAC treats them as distinct settings and duties, and a hospital paediatric ward reference does not automatically support the Child and Family Health code. Experience over 5 years old falls back to the general 254499 code only.

An honest read on this pathway

A workable pathway where the practice setting genuinely matches, but this is a narrower field than general nursing in most training countries — confirm the reference is specific to community or maternal/child health work before nominating this code over Paediatrics or the general RN listing.

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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Registered Nurse (Child and Family Health) is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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