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A dependent partner and dependent children can apply on this route.
Skilled Worker is a route to settlement.
- SW A1.1. For the purpose of this Appendix Health and Care ASHE salary job means a job in one of the following SOC 2020 occupation codes:
- 1171 Health services and public health managers and directors
- 1231 Health care practice managers
- 1232 Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors
- 2113 Biochemists and biomedical scientists
- 2114 Physical scientists
- 3111 Laboratory technicians
- 3211 Dispensing opticians
- 3212 Pharmaceutical technicians
- 6135 Care workers and home carers
- 6136 Senior care workers;
- where the applicant is sponsored, employed or engaged:
- (a) by one of the following:
- England
- an NHS Foundation Trust
- an NHS Trust
- the Care Quality Commission
- Health Education England
- Health Research Authority
- Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority
- Human Tissue Authority
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- NHS Blood and Transplant
- NHS Business Services Authority
- NHS Digital (the Health and Social Care Information Centre)
- NHS England (the NHS Commissioning Board)
- NHS Improvement (Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority
- NHS Resolution (the NHS Litigation Authority)
- UK Health Security Agency
- a Local Authority or Clinical Commissioning Group
- Wales
- a local Health Board
- Health Education & Improvement Wales
- Public Health Wales
- The Welsh Ambulance Service
- Velindre NHS Trust
- Scotland
- A Health Board or Special Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978
- Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service (established under Section 10 of that Act)
- Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (known as the Care Inspectorate) established under Section 44 of the Public Services (reform) (Scotland) Act 2010
- Scottish Social Services Council established under section 43 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001
- Northern Ireland
- A Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service
- Northern Ireland Guardian Ad Litem Agency
- Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency
- Northern Ireland Practice and Education Committee
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council, Patient and Client Council
- Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Well-Being (the Public Health Agency)
- Regional Business Services Organisation
- Regional Health and Social Care Board
- Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
- England
- (a) by one of the following:
- or
- (b) to provide, or to support the provision of, regulated activities as prescribed in Schedule 1 (read with Schedule 2) to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2936), and who is also employed or engaged by an institution or organisation registered with the Care Quality Commission; or
- (c) for the purposes of an establishment or agency in Wales regulated under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000; or
- (d) for the purposes of a service regulated under Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016; or
- (e) on a general medical services contract to provide primary medical services, or an agreement for the provision of primary medical services under section 50 of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006; or
- (f) on a general dental services contract to provide primary dental services, or an agreement for the provision of primary dental services under section 64 of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006; or
- (g) to provide care services as defined in section 47(1) of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 and registered under that Act; or
- (h) by an organisation registered with Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland; or
- (i) in connection with the provision of services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 by, a party (other than a Health Board) to one of the following:
- an arrangement to provide services under section 2C of that Act
- an agreement to provide services under section 17C of that Act
- a contract to provide services under section 17J of that Act
- an arrangement to provide services under section 25, 26 or 27 of that Act; or
- (j) by a General Practitioner Federation or by any entity with which the Northern Ireland Regional Health and Social Care Board has a contract or an arrangement under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 to provide Family Practitioner Services; or
- (k) by a body registered with, or monitored or inspected by, the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority; or
- (l) or registered with, one of the following organisations:
- General Chiropractic Council
- General Dental Council
- General Medical Council
- General Optical Council
- General Osteopathic Council
- General Pharmaceutical Council
- Health and Care Professions Council
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland
- Scottish Social Services Council (under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001)
- Social Care Wales; or
- (m) an organisation providing adult social care services, meaning any services which an English Local Authority must or may provide or arrange to be provided under:
- (i) section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (After-care); or
- (ii) Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (Care and Support).
- SW 1.1. A person applying for entry clearance or permission to stay as a Skilled Worker must apply online on the gov.uk website on the specified form as follows:
- (a) for applicants outside the UK, form Skilled Worker visa; or
- (b) for applicants inside the UK, form Skilled Worker.
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