ANZSCO is the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations.
It’s a system within the skilled migration program that sets the standards for the skills and work experience that visa applicants must meet to work in specific occupation in Australia or New Zealand.
Further to this, ANZSCO sets out the tasks that visa applicants must be able to perform as part of their everyday duties.
In other words, ANZSCO determines the most important requirements you must meet in order to qualify to apply for a skilled migrant visa.
Let’s look at the ANZSCO requirements for your occupation in detail:
ANZCO Code
The ANZSCO code assigned to general practitioners is 253111. This code gives us more details about the criteria you have to meet in order to qualify to immigrate to Australia.
The first thing we look at is the group that GPs fall under:
Major Group: 2 – Professionals | Sub-Major Group: 25 – Health Professionals | Minor Group: 253 – Health Professionals | Unit Group: 2531 – General Practitioners and Resident Medical Officers
As you can see there are four groups showing how the code is made up – we are mostly interested in the code (253111) which is specific to GPs.
Description of Role
This part of the ANZSCO criteria lays out a broad description of what a occupational therapist is supposed to be able to do:
General Practitioners diagnose and treat physical and mental illnesses, disorders and injuries, recommend preventative action and refer patients to specialist Medical Practitioners, other health care workers, and social, welfare and support workers.
Tasks
As a GP applying for a skilled migrant visa, you’re expected to be able to perform the tasks below:
- Conducting examinations and questioning patients to determine the nature of disorders and illnesses, and recording patients’ medical information
- Ordering laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures, and interpreting findings to assist in diagnosis
- Providing overall care for patients, and prescribing and administering treatments, medications and other remedial measures
- Monitoring patients’ progress and response to treatment
- Advising on diet, exercise and other habits which aid prevention and treatment of disease and disorders
- Referring patients to, and exchanging medical information with, specialist Medical Practitioners
- Reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities
- Arranging the admission of patients to hospitals
Job First?
Many people mistakenly think that finding a job is the first step when immigrating.
In fact, the first step should always be an immigration assessment to see if you have the necessary skills, qualifications and experience to live and work in Australia.
Why do we say this?
Firstly, even if you find a job, you’ll only be able to work in Australia if you have a work visa. You thus have to know if you qualify for skilled migration, or any other type of visa category that allows you to work in Australia, before you start to look for a job.
Secondly, job hunting with the confirmation that you do qualify for a work visa means you can job hunt with confidence. It’s not only the confidence of job hunting while already knowing that you do qualify to live and work in Australia. It’s also that employers are much more likely to extend job offers to overseas candidates who they know are eligible to work in Australia.
