First Aid Trainer (ANZSCO 451815)

On the Regional 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 First Aid Trainer on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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).

Processing priority

First Aid Trainer isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for First Aid Trainer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses First Aid Trainer as a Group D occupation — AQF Certificate III or higher plus highly relevant employment in the last five years. Fewer occupation-specific procedural statements were sourced for this code than for most others in the family; the employment and qualification tests follow the same standard Group D shape documented in the general VETASSESS framework, without an occupation-specific evidence list, a suitable-not-suitable naming exercise, or a licensing hedge appearing on its own page in this research pass.

Where these applications come unstuck

First Aid Trainer sits on the ROL only, reaching 407, 491 and 494 — no employer-sponsored or independent-permanent door. The trap worth naming here is assuming a trainer or assessor credential issued by a Registered Training Organisation automatically satisfies the AQF Certificate III floor VETASSESS applies to the occupation itself; a certificate to deliver first-aid courses and a Certificate III-level qualification recognised against this occupation's ANZSCO description are not automatically the same document, and this was not resolved either way in this research pass.

An honest read on this pathway

Visa reach is limited to state and territory nomination plus temporary streams, the same shape as most ROL-only codes in this family. No occupation-specific licensing overlay, industry-body ticket, or forum discussion was sourced for this code in this pass — it is one of the least-documented occupations in the family, not because the pathway is unusual, but because less occupation-specific material about it was found.

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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating First Aid Trainer 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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