HLT50221 is the nationally recognised Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Management. It prepares you for work as an aboriginal and torres strait islander health worker. It has been the current version on the national register since 2022, when it replaced HLT50113. Employers posted about 64 aboriginal and torres strait islander health worker jobs in June 2026, down 0.5% on a year earlier.
The independent signals behind the Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Management line up. Aboriginal and torres strait islander health workers are in national shortage, employment is projected to grow through 2035 and enrolments are rising. These are official statistics, not a promise about your result.
Job ads for aboriginal and torres strait islander health workers are holding steady. About 64 aboriginal and torres strait islander health worker jobs were advertised online in June 2026, down 0.5% on a year earlier. Over the last 12 months there were about 800 job ads, while 60 people were training in the qualification nationally (2025). Ads show the market. Enrolments show the pipeline. Neither is a job promise.
Australia's official shortage list rates aboriginal and torres strait islander health workers as in shortage. The 2025 Occupation Shortage List rates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker as in national shortage.
Aboriginal and torres strait islander health worker jobs are projected to keep growing strongly. Jobs and Skills Australia projections put these occupations at 1,193 workers in May 2025, 1,313 by May 2030 (up 10.1%) and 1,434 by May 2035 (up 20.2%).
More people are choosing the Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Management every year. Across Australia, 35 people enrolled in 2024. In 2025 it was 60, up 71.4% in a year. National data for HLT50221 starts in 2024.
The register and the national framework set some of this. Providers set the rest.
State funding for HLT50221 is being verified against official program lists.
Eligibility and student contributions vary by program and provider. The official state listing is the source of truth. In a subsidised place the government pays most of the tuition and you pay a co-contribution set by the program and provider.
The Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Management is 17 units: 6 core, plus 11 electives chosen from 44 options on the register. One unit has prerequisites, marked below.
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Browse coursesGet Course maps HLT50221 to its occupations using the register’s own outcome wording, shown with ANZSCO codes (here, 4115) so the mapping can be checked. Job advertisement counts come from the Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index and count online ads, not vacancies filled. Enrolment counts come from NCVER Total VET Activity and count people in training, not completions. Funding rows appear only after verification against the official state program list. Source vintages: Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index latest month June 2026; NCVER Total VET Activity 2025 collection; Occupation Shortage List 2025 assessment; register training.gov.au, synced 18 September 2026; employment projections May 2025 to May 2035 release; register synced 18 Sept 2026. Page last updated 19 Sept 2026.