Ireland is hiring 10 of our professions.
- 7,948 health & social work employment permits issued in 2025 · enterprise.gov.ie · 2026-09-22
Critical Skills permit → Stamp 4 after 2 years
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Ireland
Regulated by CORU
In their own words.
- Health and social care firms to be allowed recruit more than half of staff from outside EU
- More than 600 extra university places to train nurses, doctors and other key medics
- More than 32,000 adults waiting over a year for physiotherapy and other primary care assessments
- Why are only 12% of radiographers satisfied with their jobs?
Where the Ireland scale starts.
The entry grade on the employer's own published scale. Your grade depends on the post you are appointed to.
HSE consolidated pay scale · entry grade · a year
Source: assets.hse.ie · consolidated salary scales · 1 Jun 2026
HSE consolidated pay scale · entry grade · a year
Source: assets.hse.ie · consolidated salary scales · 1 Jun 2026
HSE consolidated pay scale · entry grade · a year
Source: assets.hse.ie · consolidated salary scales · 1 Jun 2026
HSE consolidated pay scale · entry grade · a year
Source: assets.hse.ie · consolidated salary scales · 1 Jun 2026
The same scale sets an entry grade for nine of our twelve.
10 of our 12 are listed here.
PhysiotherapistOn the Critical Skills Occupations List
Occupational TherapistOn the Critical Skills Occupations List
RadiographerOn the Critical Skills Occupations List (as Radiographers)
Medical Lab ScientistNamed an HSE shortage role — national training programme announced
DietitianOn the Critical Skills Occupations List (as Dietician)
OptometristOn the Critical Skills Occupations List
Speech-Language PathologistOn the Critical Skills Occupations List (as Speech and Language Therapist)
Medical Social WorkerOn the Critical Skills Occupations List
PodiatristOn the Critical Skills Occupations List (as Podiatrist / Chiropodist)
Social Care WorkerRemoved from the Ineligible Occupations List, Dec 2023 — permit route openNot open here today
- Dispensing OpticianNot on the Critical Skills Occupations List
- Operating Department PractitionerNot a regulated title in Ireland
11 of our 12 professions, through twelve registration boards
- Qualification recognition against the Irish standard
- Syllabus, placement hours and scope of practice
- English language and good standing
It can set compensation measures — extra study or supervised practice — where a gap is found. We map the syllabus so there isn’t one.
See the regulator pageOpen on the boards in Ireland.
Counts go stale. Each one carries the board it came from, how it was matched, and the day we read it.
Four steps into Ireland.
We check your fit
Your degree, syllabus and hours against CORU's own published standards.
We build the file
Every document in the form CORU asks for, apostilled in the right order.
We stay to the decision
Filed in your own account. Every query drafted by us, sent by you, tracked to the answer.
Registration, then the visa
Registration comes first. The visa route follows Ireland's published framework.
See your own route to Ireland.
Two answers. Ten seconds. Then the facts for your profession.