Respiratory Technician (ANZSCO 311217)

On the 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 Respiratory Technician on?

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 in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
• Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186

Processing priority

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Respiratory Technician comes from:

• Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Respiratory Technician on the Core Skills Occupation List only, reaching just two visas — Employer Nomination and Skills in Demand — compared with the six visas its own unit-group neighbour, Medical Technicians nec, reaches. Group qualification and employment framework details for this code specifically were not separately captured beyond its list placement and its own stated exclusion; check the live occupation page directly before relying on this summary for the qualification pathway itself.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code's own "occupations not considered" list names Medical Technicians nec directly, which on its own would settle the question against nominating the nec code for respiratory-technician work. But Medical Technicians nec's own suitable-occupations list separately names "Respiratory Technician" as one of ten accepted titles, and the stakes are real: the nec code reaches six visas where this one reaches two. VETASSESS's own two pages disagree with each other.

An honest read on this pathway

This dossier does not resolve which of VETASSESS's own pages should be relied on and does not recommend nominating either code over the other — it reports the contradiction as found, sourced to both pages directly. Anyone with a genuine respiratory-technician background should read both this code's exclusion list and the nec code's suitable list before deciding, and consider raising the conflict with VETASSESS directly rather than picking the more favourable list.

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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