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Canada is inviting social workers.

Express Entry · healthcare category · 18,500 invitations in the last 12 months · canada.ca

You hold the non-clinical side of illness together — discharge, safeguarding, family, housing, consent.

A social worker writes notes on a pad while sitting with a client.

Medical Social Worker

Canada

CA Express EntryNZ Green List · Tier 1IE Critical SkillsUK H&C visa

5 of 5

countries carry this profession on an official shortage or priority list

gov.uk · enterprise.gov.ie · jobsandskills.gov.au

NZ Tier 1

Green List Tier 1 — straight to residence (listed as Social Worker)

immigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22

5,363

open listings — NHS Jobs, HSE jobs, Health NZ portal, Job Bank Canada

exact title & keyword match · 2026-09-22

18,500

healthcare invitations in the last 12 months — 6 draws

canada.ca · rounds of invitations · 2026-09-22

What you do abroad

The work, and why it matters.

You hold the non-clinical side of illness together — discharge, safeguarding, family, housing, consent.

For patients

A safe discharge instead of a readmission.

For the system

In Canada’s Express Entry healthcare category. Tier 1 in New Zealand. Critical Skills in Ireland.

For you

Hospital, mental-health and child-protection roles across five countries.

Where the work happens

  • Hospitals
  • Mental health
  • Child protection
  • Community services
Where you're wanted

Five of five countries list this role.

Each card carries this profession's strongest fact there, and what is open on the boards today.

United KingdomEligible for the Health & Care Worker visa (SOC 2461)gov.uk · 2026-09-22
4,887 live · NHS Jobs

exact title · 2026-09-22

NHS Agenda for ChangeGBP 32,073Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

Band 5, entry step · a year

Source: nhsemployers.org · agenda for change pay scales · 1 Apr 2026

IrelandOn the Critical Skills Occupations Listenterprise.gov.ie · 2026-09-22
3 live · HSE jobs

keyword match · 2026-09-22

HSE consolidated pay scaleEUR 51,127Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

entry grade · a year

Source: assets.hse.ie · consolidated salary scales · 1 Jun 2026

AustraliaRated Shortage on the 2025 Occupation Shortage List (as Social Workers)jobsandskills.gov.au · 2026-09-22
NSW Health professionals awardAUD 76,364Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

Level 1 Year 1 · entry grade · a year

Source: health.nsw.gov.au · health professionals state award · 1 Jul 2025

New ZealandGreen List Tier 1 — straight to residence (listed as Social Worker)immigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22
74 live · Health NZ portal

exact title · 2026-09-22

Health NZ allied health scaleNZD 77,087Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

Step 1 · entry grade · a year

Source: tewhatuora.govt.nz · allied health collective agreement · 2 Sept 2024

CanadaIn the Express Entry healthcare category (NOC 41300)canada.ca · 2026-09-22
399 live · Job Bank Canada

keyword match · 2026-09-22

BC health science professionalsCAD 43.54Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

P1, first year · entry grade · an hour

Source: hsabc.org · health science professionals agreement · 1 Apr 2025

Who regulates you

Who decides.

The regulator assesses your qualification. We prepare and submit the file. The decision is theirs.

Ireland

CORU (Social Workers Registration Board)

Registered as Social Worker — Social Workers Registration Board

  • Qualification recognition against the Irish standard
  • Syllabus, placement hours and scope of practice
  • English language and good standing
coru.ie

We hold a recorded route for one of the five. We did not confirm a registration route for the others in the September 2026 pass.

Your route

Four steps to registration.

Fit check against the social-work regulator’s standards

Your degree, syllabus and clinical hours read against the regulator’s own published standards.

Placement hours and supervision evidenced

Every document in the form the regulator asks for, translated and legalised in the right order.

Filed in your regulator account

Filed in your own account. Every query drafted by us, sent by you, tracked to the answer.

Registered

Registration comes first. The visa route follows the destination country’s published framework.

Recent numbers

The latest official figures.

Read from the government's own pages in September 2026. The date is the disclosure.

12,987

social workers on the SWRB register

swrb.govt.nz · annual report 2024-2025 · 30 Jun 2025

6,044

social workers on the CORU register

coru.ie · coru annual report 2025

11%

of new registrants trained abroad — SWRB

swrb.govt.nz · annual report 2024-2025 · 2024/25

Tier 1

Green List Tier 1 — straight to residence (listed as Social Worker)

immigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22

10,000

skilled-independent (189) invitations in the last SkillSelect round

immi.homeaffairs.gov.au · 2026-09-22

Canada's last six Express Entry healthcare draws

Draw dateInvitationsCRS cut-off
4 Sept 20263,500475
25 Jun 20264,000475
20 Feb 20264,000467
11 Dec 20251,000476
14 Nov 20253,500462
15 Oct 20252,500472

canada.ca · rounds of invitations · 2026-09-22

Route finder

Where could you be working next year?

Two answers. Ten seconds. Then we show you what's open for your profession.

These describe each country’s general immigration framework as published, not a route we can promise or advise on. Immigration rules change and are applied case by case. For your own circumstances, consult a registered immigration adviser.

See your own route as a medical social worker.

One more answer — where you want to work — and the facts are on screen.