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Australia is short of speech therapists.

Occupation Shortage List 2025 · shortage in all 8 states & territories · jobsandskills.gov.au

You give people back speech, language and safe swallowing — after stroke, in childhood, in dementia.

A speech and language therapist with a clipboard listens to a client in a quiet consulting room.

Speech-Language Pathologist

Australia · Speech Pathology Australia

AU Shortage · all 8 statesNZ Green List · Tier 1UK NHS shortfall planIE Critical Skills

5 of 5

countries carry this profession on an official shortage or priority list

NHS Long Term Workforce Plan · gov.uk · enterprise.gov.ie

NZ Tier 1

Green List Tier 1 — straight to residence (listed as Speech Language Therapist)

immigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22

1,897

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 give people back speech, language and safe swallowing — after stroke, in childhood, in dementia.

For patients

Communication restored, and the pneumonia risk of unsafe swallowing removed.

For the system

Australia rates you in shortage in all eight states. The NHS names you among its greatest shortfalls.

For you

Australia’s route is an association certification, not an exam series.

Where the work happens

  • Hospitals
  • Schools
  • Community clinics
  • Rehabilitation
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 KingdomNamed among the greatest AHP shortfallsNHS Long Term Workforce Plan · june 2023
1,838 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 List (as Speech and Language Therapist)enterprise.gov.ie · 2026-09-22
4 live · HSE jobs

keyword match · 2026-09-22

HSE consolidated pay scaleEUR 45,514Primary 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

AustraliaShortage in all 8 states & territoriesjobsandskills.gov.au · 2025 list, state ratings
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 Speech Language Therapist)immigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22
11 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 31112)canada.ca · 2026-09-22
44 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

You'd be in good company

Named, in their own words.

A Career in SLT FR 2025Galway University Hospitals HSCP Career Info
Who regulates you

Who decides, country by country.

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

United Kingdom

HCPC

Registered as Speech and Language Therapist

  • Degree, transcripts & syllabus mapped to its Standards of Proficiency
  • Registration and experience in your home country
  • English language test
hcpc-uk.org

Ireland

CORU

Registered as Speech and Language Therapist

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

Australia

Speech Pathology Australia — overseas certification

Registered as Speech Pathologist

  • Qualification assessment or portfolio, board by board
  • Supervised practice and recency
  • English language test
speechpathologyaustralia.org.au
  • Qualification assessed against the NZ standard
  • Registration with the profession’s own board
  • Green List job offer → Straight to Residence
speechtherapy.org.nz
  • Credential assessment for the province you choose
  • A national certification exam for most professions
  • Language test — English or French
caslpo.com
Your route

Four steps to registration.

Fit check — client groups evidenced

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

Syllabus and placement hours mapped

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

Filed under the regulator’s title (Speech and Language Therapist)

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.

20,895

speech therapists on the HCPC register

hcpc-uk.org · register summary · 1 Sept 2026

2,674

speech therapists on the CORU register

coru.ie · coru annual report 2025

Tier 1

Green List Tier 1 — straight to residence (listed as Speech Language Therapist)

immigration.govt.nz · 2026-09-22

10,000

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

immi.homeaffairs.gov.au · 2026-09-22

97,475

open NHS vacancies — 6.5% of the workforce

nhs vacancy statistics · mar 2026

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 speech-language pathologist.

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