Health Workforce Australia (Eligibility) Instrument 2012 (No. 1)

I, TANYA PLIBERSEK, Minister for Health, make this legislative instrument under subsection 5(3) of the Health Workforce Australia Act 2009.

 

 

 

Dated   17.10.12 _______________________ 

TANYA PLIBERSEK  

Minister for Health

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1               Name of instrument

 This instrument is the Health Workforce Australia (Eligibility) Instrument 2012 (No. 1).

2               Commencement

This instrument commences on the date after it is registered.

3               Interpretation

In this instrument:

Act means the Health Workforce Australia Act 2009.

professional entry course means a course undertaken by an individual through a university or VET provider in Australia, which on completion confers a qualification on the individual that allows entry to the specified profession (assuming all other entry requirements are met) where the individual was not previously eligible to enter that profession.

specified profession means a profession specified in the Schedule.

university means a ‘registered higher education provider’ as defined in the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.

VET provider means a ‘registered training organisation’ as defined in the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.

4               Eligible students

For the purposes of paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act, the kind of student who is eligible is a student who is undertaking, or who has been accepted into, a professional entry course for a specified profession.

5               Eligible clinical training

For the purposes of paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act, the kind of clinical training that is eligible is clinical training undertaken in a professional entry course for a specified profession.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule – specified professions

  1. Aboriginal health work
  2. audiology
  3. chiropractic
  4. dentistry
  5. dietetics
  6. exercise physiology
  7. medical laboratory science
  8. medicine
  9. midwifery
  10. nursing
  11. occupational therapy
  12. optometry
  13. oral health (dental hygiene and dental therapy)
  14. orthoptics
  15. orthotics and prosthetics
  16. osteopathy
  17. paramedicine
  18. pharmacy
  19. physiotherapy
  20. podiatry
  21. psychology but only where the practice of that profession would include accreditation in the specialties of clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, community psychology, counselling, educational and developmental psychology, forensic psychology or health psychology
  22. radiation science, including radiotherapy, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine technology
  23. social work
  24. sonography
  25. speech pathology

 

 

Note

  1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.  See http://www.comlaw.gov.au