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Ireland is open to care workers.

Employment permit route open · off the Ineligible Occupations List since Dec 2023 · enterprise.gov.ie

You are the daily support that lets people with disability, illness or age live with dignity.

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Social Care Worker

Ireland · CORU

IE permit route openAU Shortage · aged & disabled careCA Express EntryUK 6.2% vacancy rate

4 of 5

countries carry this profession on an official shortage or priority list

skillsforcare.org.uk · gov.uk · enterprise.gov.ie

AU Shortage

Rated Shortage on the 2025 Occupation Shortage List (as Aged and Disabled Carers — nearest equivalent)

jobsandskills.gov.au · 2026-09-22

1,384

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

keyword match & nearest match · 2026-09-22

18,500

healthcare invitations in the last 12 months — 6 draws

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.

Guides

Guides for social care workers

Step by step, in the order each regulator reads your file.

All our guides →
What you do abroad

The work, and why it matters.

You are the daily support that lets people with disability, illness or age live with dignity.

For patients

Independence kept, and a life outside an institution.

For the system

Ireland reopened employment permits for care work in December 2023. Australia rates aged and disability care in shortage.

For you

A regulated title in Ireland, held on CORU’s Social Care Workers register.

Where the work happens

  • Residential care
  • Disability services
  • Community support
  • Home care
Where you're wanted

Four of five countries list this role.

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

United Kingdom6.2% adult social care vacancy rate, 2025/26skillsforcare.org.uk · official statistics · 2025/26
11,506 live · NHS Jobs

keyword match · 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 · gross, a year

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

IrelandRemoved from the Ineligible Occupations List, Dec 2023 — permit route openenterprise.gov.ie · 2026-09-22
13 live · HSE jobs

keyword match · 2026-09-22

HSE consolidated pay scaleEUR 41,260Primary confidence — From the regulator’s own site or fee schedule, September 2026.

entry grade · gross, a year

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

AustraliaRated Shortage on the 2025 Occupation Shortage List (as Aged and Disabled Carers — nearest equivalent)jobsandskills.gov.au · 2026-09-22
CanadaIn the Express Entry healthcare category (NOC 42201)canada.ca · 2026-09-22
306 live · Job Bank Canada

keyword match · 2026-09-22

New ZealandNot on the Green List — a separate Care Workforce visa appliesimmigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22
Not on an official list1,065 live · Health NZ portal

nearest match · 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 · gross, a year

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

Who regulates you

Who decides.

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

Ireland

CORU (Social Care Workers Registration Board)

Registered as Social Care Worker — Social Care 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 CORU’s social-care standards

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

Qualification and experience evidenced

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

Filed in your CORU 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.

4,501

care workers on the CORU register

coru.ie · coru annual report 2025

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

Pathways

Your route to working and settling abroad as a social care worker.

From registration to settling, with who decides each step.

Every route we cover →
Related

Three more we cover.

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See your own route as a social care worker.

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

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