Registered Nurse (Community Health) (ANZSCO 254414)

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 (Community 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 (Community Health) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

The ANMAC qualification, English and Full/Modified assessment steps are the same as for every other RN specialisation. To nominate Community Health rather than the general 254499 code, applicants need a professional reference a recent, documented period of paid work in a community health setting — home visiting, community health centres or public health nursing — within ANMAC's recency window (confirm the current period with ANMAC).

Where these applications come unstuck

Community-based roles are more likely than hospital roles to be part-time, casual or contracted across multiple short placements, which makes assembling one continuous 260-hour reference harder than for ward-based specialties. Applicants sometimes submit several short, disconnected references that individually fall short of what a single employer reference is expected to show.

An honest read on this pathway

Genuinely assessable, but community nursing evidence tends to be more fragmented than hospital evidence — start collecting references from every community employer as you go rather than trying to reconstruct them years later.

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 (Community 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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