Diversional Therapist (ANZSCO 411311)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation 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 Diversional Therapist 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.

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 Diversional Therapist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Diversional Therapist is the only Group D occupation in this entire family — VETASSESS states this directly on its own page: "Diversional Therapist is a VETASSESS Group D occupation." Group D scales the required employment against the qualification level rather than applying one fixed bar: a Certificate IV or higher qualification is the baseline, with the amount of employment needed running from one to four years depending on how relevant the qualification is and its level. That structure is genuinely different from every other code in this family, all of which sit in Group A or Group C, and it is the single most distinctive fact about how this occupation is assessed.

Where these applications come unstuck

The pitfall specific to this code is assuming the Group A or Group C rules described elsewhere in this family apply here. They do not — Group D's sliding scale between qualification level and required employment duration means two applicants with different qualifications can face different employment thresholds for the same occupation, which is not how Group A or Group C work. Anyone assessing their own eligibility for this code against general descriptions of VETASSESS's process elsewhere in this family should check the Group D-specific requirements directly, rather than assuming the Certificate IV, Diploma or Bachelor rules that apply to other codes carry across.

An honest read on this pathway

Diversional Therapist sits on STSOL plus CSOL, reaching eight visas including 189, 186 and 482 — the full visa range this family offers, on the family's most structurally distinctive (and, on VETASSESS's own description of Group D generally, often the more forgiving) assessment tier. This guide did not find, and did not attempt to confirm, any registration or licensing requirement specific to Diversional Therapist on the page reviewed for this research; none is named, and none should be assumed. Confirm current Group D requirements directly against VETASSESS's own page before relying on any general description of the other groups in this family.

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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