Out of School Hours Care Worker (ANZSCO 421114)

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 Out of School Hours Care Worker 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 assessment

A positive skills assessment for Out of School Hours Care Worker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACECQA assesses this code against one of four specifically named nationally recognised qualifications — CHC50221 Diploma of School Age Education and Care, CHC40221 Certificate IV, CHC30221 Certificate III, or 10983NAT Certificate III in Outside School Hours Care — rather than any general early-childhood qualification. If an applicant doesn't hold one of those four, ACECQA can instead run a dual "Equivalent Out of School Hours Care Worker" assessment against the same standard. English proficiency is required, assessed at the same lower band ACECQA applies to Child Care Worker rather than the higher Early Childhood Teacher band.

Where these applications come unstuck

A mainstream Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care — the qualification that satisfies the general Child Care Worker code (421111) — does not automatically satisfy this occupation. The two sit in the same broad sector but this code requires one of four specifically named training-package codes, and an applicant assuming any Cert III will do needs ACECQA's separate equivalent-qualification determination first, adding a step and a wait that a same-sector Cert III holder might not expect. Confirm which of the four named qualifications (or the dual equivalence route) actually applies before assuming a general childcare qualification transfers across.

An honest read on this pathway

This occupation sits on the CSOL, reaching visas including 186 and 482, and there's no dedicated national labour-agreement lane for the sector — childcare-sector sponsors mostly appear through regional DAMAs rather than a single national scheme. A successful skills assessment supports the visa; it isn't a licence to work with children. A state-issued Working With Children Check (Blue Card in Queensland, WWCC in NSW, and equivalents elsewhere), specific to wherever the person is actually employed and not transferable between states, is a separate requirement on top of the assessment.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

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