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Nursing Assistants: where your skills can take you

Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.

Most common qualification in Australia: a certificate or diploma (49% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Nursing Support and Personal Care Workers: A$83,800 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia) · National Police Check; NDIS Worker Screening for disability work

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Three moves that use what a nursing assistant already knows

Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.

Personal Care Aides

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, working in step with other people and managing your own time.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (65%).

🪪 National Police Check; NDIS Worker Screening for disability work

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Provide personalized assistance to individuals with disabilities or illness who require help with personal care and activities of daily living support (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and ambulation). May also provide help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry. Work is performed in various settings depending on the needs of the care recipient and may include locations such as their home, place of work, out in the community, or at a daytime nonresidential facility.

Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, working in step with other people and sound judgement.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (60%).

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Monitor recreational areas, such as pools, beaches, or ski slopes, to provide assistance and protection to participants.

Massage Therapists

Usual study level (from US data): Cert IV or Diploma (TAFE; if you have experience, recognition of prior learning can shorten it)

🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, listening properly and sound judgement.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (92%).

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Perform therapeutic massages of soft tissues and joints. May assist in the assessment of range of motion and muscle strength, or propose client therapy plans.

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What this list is. A starting point, not advice. Australian pay is shown where a job maps cleanly. Check any course or registration with the body that runs it.

Data sources and licences

O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.

Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.

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