Visa Pathfinder®

Aged care sponsorship, mapped — free, no account

You tell it your situation.
It tells you your timeline,
your doors and the live jobs.

For anyone on a temporary visa working — or willing to work — in Australian aged care. The path to permanent residency exists; the problem is knowing which employers can actually open it, which of them are hiring right now, and how much time you really have.

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186

Employers holding the agreement, from the Home Affairs list

228

Live jobs at those employers, harvested 2026-09-07

482 → 186

Sponsored visa, two years with the sponsor, then permanent residency

5.0 → 5.5

The English bar at the 482, then again at the 186 two years later

What you get

Your plan, your employers, their jobs — one page.

The saved-profile view, on today's data, for a sample profile in Sydney. Real employers, real ads. Switch the tabs to see the shape of it — sign in, free, to see all of it for your own city.

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Sample plan

Sydney — timeline and doors

The doors: 93 employers in NSW

SourcesHow to stand out

In or near Sydney (45)

EmployerAgreement ends
CASS Care Limitedverified CALD · IELTS 4.5home carePhone and emailSydney - Campsie (Chinese community), 13 sites01 Sep 2030

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45 employers in Sydney, 48 more across NSW

Every phone number, recruitment email and job-board link, filtered to your own city and language.

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Every row holds an approved Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement. Shaded rows serve the Chinese-speaking community — where the English bar drops to 4.5.

  • Timeline

    Five dates counted back from your expiry, with the one that matters right now called out.

  • Approved employers

    The full Home Affairs agreement list, filtered to your state and city, sorted by how long each agreement runs.

  • Live jobs

    Ads matched to sponsoring employers, one board, newest first, with the number to ring for each.

  • Language match

    Employers verified on My Aged Care as serving your community — where the English bar drops to 4.5.

  • Skills and English

    Your certificates and checks graded against a nomination, and the two English bars with your score beside them.

  • Verify any employer

    Type a name, see whether it holds the agreement today — before you spend three months asking.

Most aged care employers cannot sponsor you — even the ones that want to.

The Aged or Disabled Carer occupation is not on the ordinary skilled visa lists. It is reachable only through the Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement — a deal each employer signs individually. Asking an employer without one is a dead end that costs you two to three months you may not have.

This tool starts from the Home Affairs list of the 186 employers who hold the agreement (current 30 June 2026, refreshed quarterly), filters it to your state and city, and lays the 228 jobs those employers have posted this week beside it — so every door on your list is one that can actually open.

How it works

  1. 01

    Tell it your situation

    Visa type and expiry, work status, qualification, English, languages, location. Seven questions, two minutes, no account needed.

  2. 02

    Get your timeline

    Everything is computed backwards from your visa expiry: when the English test must be done, the last safe day to first ask an employer, when the nomination and visa must be lodged, and the second English test at the PR stage.

  3. 03

    See your doors

    Every employer in your state and city holding an approved Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement — the only employers who can sponsor an Aged or Disabled Carer — with their phone number, recruitment email and job-board links.

  4. 04

    See the live jobs

    Real ads from those employers, harvested weekly from their careers pages, Seek, EthicalJobs and Workforce Australia, and matched to the agreement list. Filter by state, home or residential care, and language match.

  5. 05

    Close the gaps

    A personal checklist, in order, of every gap between where you are and a nomination — certificates, checks, the English test — with links to the official source for each step. Ticks are saved.

The quick check gives you steps one and two with no account. Sign in to save the profile and unlock the employers, the jobs and the checklist.

The rules that matter

OccupationAged or Disabled Carer (ANZSCO 423111) — accessible only through the Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement
ExperienceNone on top of an Australian Certificate III — the standard 482 asks for one year
Skills assessmentNot required with an Australian Certificate III
Salary floor$51,222 per year under the agreement, or the award rate if higher — the standard 482 floor is $79,423 from 1 July 2026
English (482)IELTS 5.0 overall, with 5.0 in speaking and listening and 4.5 in reading and writing — or 4.5 overall with no component minimum where the employer serves a community speaking your language. Eight other tests are accepted.
English (186, two years later)IELTS 5.5 overall with no component minimum, and you must be under 45 on the day you apply

Speaking a community's language changes the maths: where an employer serves a culturally and linguistically diverse community and you speak its language, the English bar drops and you become genuinely hard to replace. The results highlight those employers for you. Willing to go regional? The DAMA track has its own, more open lists — the results cover that too.

The full path to PR, with the documents

Information, not migration advice

This tool presents public information with links to official sources. It is not immigration assistance and cannot replace a registered migration agent or lawyer. Free advice services are listed with every result.

Nobody may charge you for sponsorship

Paying — or being asked to pay — for a sponsorship is a criminal offence for both sides under s245AR of the Migration Act. Employers pay their own costs.

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