Can health associate professionals (not elsewhere classified) get a Skilled Worker visa? (SOC 3219)

Appendix Skilled Occupations lists this code in Table 3a, and the gov.uk eligible occupations table labels it “Medium Skilled”.

Tables 1a and 3a are for medium-skilled occupations (RQF levels 3 to 5). Since 22 July 2025, sponsors may only use them for someone granted Skilled Worker permission under the rules in place before 22 July 2025 who has held it continuously since, unless the job is on the Temporary Shortage List or the Immigration Salary List (Appendix Skilled Worker SW 6.1). This code is on neither list.

Gov.uk lists code 3219 for the Health and Care Worker visa only for people extending or updating it who got their certificate of sponsorship before 22 July 2025 and have held a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa continuously since.

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The going rate for code 3219 is a national pay scale, set out in Appendix Skilled Occupations (source: NHS Agenda for Change: England), Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland). The job must pay at least £25,000 and the rate for the role, whichever is higher, and the rate is pro-rated to the contracted hours.

Going rates in Table 4 are per year and based on a 37.5-hour week (in Scotland, a 37-hour week). Band 1 and band 2 jobs are not eligible to be sponsored. Except for “6131 Nursing auxiliaries and assistants”, sponsors may ONLY sponsor Skilled Worker applicants in band 3 and band 4 jobs if the applicant was granted permission as a Skilled Worker under the rules in place before 22 July 2025, and they have had continuous permission as a Skilled Worker since then. Band 1 to band 4 jobs are not eligible for the Global Business Mobility or Scale-up routes.

Figures as published in Appendix Skilled Occupations, checked on 23 October 2026.

Examples from the Immigration Rules and the gov.uk eligible occupations table. They are examples, not the full list: a job belongs in this code because of its duties, whatever it is called.

• Antenatal teacher
• Diet adviser
• Health trainer
• Therapist
• Dietetic assistants
• Equine dentists
• Foot health practitioners (excludes podiatrists)
• Home economists
• Health associate professionals not elsewhere classified

The employer does, not you and not GoRizzume. The sponsor picks the code when it assigns the Certificate of Sponsorship, and Appendix Skilled Worker (SW 6.2) lets the Home Office refuse the application if it has reasonable grounds to believe a less appropriate code was chosen because the right one is not eligible, has a higher going rate, or is not on the Immigration Salary List. The duties decide the code, not the job title.

So treat this page as the rules for code 3219, not a verdict on any particular offer. Ask the employer which code they will use, then check that code. If you are unsure, the CASCOT coding tool suggests codes for a job title, and gov.uk says to make sure the description matches what you will actually do.

• 3211 Dispensing opticiansExisting visa holders only
• 3212 Pharmaceutical techniciansShortage list to 31 December 2026
• 3213 Medical and dental techniciansExisting visa holders only
• 3214 Complementary health associate professionalsExisting visa holders only

Only an employer on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors can sponsor a Skilled Worker visa, and a licence means they can sponsor eligible roles, not that every job comes with sponsorship.

• Search the register of licensed sponsors
• Check one employer's licence, free
• Work out the salary for a specific offer
• Every occupation code and its answer
• Health and medical employers with a licence in London (752)
• Health and medical employers with a licence in Birmingham (95)
• Health and medical employers with a licence in Manchester (83)
• Health and medical employers with a licence in Liverpool (70)

These employers hold licences for the roles they can sponsor. A licence does not make this occupation eligible.