Gymnastics Coach or Instructor (ANZSCO 452312)
On the Short-term Skilled 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 Gymnastics Coach or Instructor 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.
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).
- Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) — Permanent, state or territory nominated · all occupations for the 190
- Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Gymnastics Coach or Instructor comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
VETASSESS assesses Gymnastics Coach or Instructor as a Group F occupation — an AQF Certificate II floor, the lowest qualification level in this family, run through a three-pathway structure covering, broadly, one year of highly relevant employment, two years of employment that is not highly relevant, or four years total including one highly relevant year in the last five. Its suitable-occupation list names Callisthenics Instructor and Rhythmic Gymnastics Coach as recognised specialisations under this code.
Where these applications come unstuck
Unlike Tennis Coach, Swimming Coach or Instructor and Other Sports Coach or Instructor — the other three Group F codes in this family — Gymnastics Coach or Instructor's own page does not spell out a self-employment evidence paragraph, even though it shares the identical Group F pathway structure. That is an absence on VETASSESS's page, not a rule that self-employed gymnastics coaches are treated differently; the general framework's self-employment evidence rules plausibly still apply, but this occupation's own page does not restate them the way its Group F siblings do.
An honest read on this pathway
This is one of four coach or instructor codes sitting a full qualification level below their Group D coaching siblings — diving, horse riding, snowsport instruction — despite coaching a comparably skilled physical activity. VETASSESS's own material does not explain why the split falls where it does, only that it does. Visa reach (190, 407, 491, 494) has no employer-sponsorship door at all.
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
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- Horse Riding Coach or Instructor (452313)
- Other Sports Coach or Instructor (452317)
- Other Sports Official (452323)
- Snowsport Instructor (452314)
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