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Skills Shortage List
The Skill Shortage List details highly skilled occupations whose practitioners are in particularly short supply in the European Economic Areas (EEA). If you are an employer you may recruit a suitably qualified non EEA worker to undertake a shortage occupation without the need to advertise the position (as is required for Tier 2 Work Permit applications).Information Technology jobs are no longer considered skill shortage occupations. If you wish to employ someone in an IT role you will need to undertake a Tier 2 work permit application only once you have conducted a suitable EEA wide recruitment search.
Skill Shortage Occupations – As at January 2008
Engineering occupations- Railways Planner or Engineer
- Railways Modeller
- Railway Track Design or Permanent Way Engineer
- Communications Engineer
- Power Supply Engineer or Electrification Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Infrastructure Engineer or Buildings Engineer
- Bridge Engineer or Highways Structural Engineer
- Traffic Engineer or Transport Planner
- Transport Modeller or Transport Planner
- Traffic Signal Engineer
- Highways Design Engineer or Highways Planning Engineer
- Highways Maintenance Engineer
- Geo-environmental Engineer
- Geotechnical Engineer
- Geological Advisor
- Geological Analyst
- Geological Associate
- Geological Engineer
- Geologist / Hydrogeologist
- Geology / Reservoir Engineer
- Geomechanics Engineer
- Geophysical Specialist
- Geophysicist
- Geoscientist
- Geosupport Engineer
- Engineering Geologist
- Ground Engineer
- Contaminated Land Specialist
- Chartered Quantity Surveyors
- CAA Licensed Aircraft Engineer
- Overhead Electricity Linesworker
Healthcare shortage occupations
- Salaried GPs
- Consultants in Dental Specialities
- Accident & Emergency
- Additional Dental Specialities
- Anaesthetics
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Chemical Pathology
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Clinical Oncology
- Clinical Radiology
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology & Diabetes Mellitus
- Endodentics
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Gastroenterology
- General Adult Psychiatry
- General Internal Medicine
- General Surgery
- Genito-urinary Medicine
- Geriatric Medicine
- Haematology
- Histopathology
- Immunology
- Infectious Diseases
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Medical Microbiology & Virology
- Medical Oncology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Nuclear Medicine
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Occupational Health
- Old Age Psychiatry
- Opthalmology
- Oral & Maxillo-facial Surgery
- Orthodontics
- Otolaryngology
- Paediatric Cardiology
- Paediatrics
- Palliative Medicine
- Plastic Surgery
- Psychotherapy
- Public Health Medicine
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Renal Medicine
- Respiratory Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery
- Urology
- Audiologist
- Audiological Scientist
- Clinical Psychologist
- Dietician
- Occupational Therapist
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy Technician
- Pre-Registration Cytogeneticists
- Speech & Language Therapist
- Social Worker
- State Registered Scientists in Cytogenetics
- Biomedical Scientist / Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer (MLSO)
- Qualified HPC Registered Diagnostic & Therapeutic Radiographers, including Ultrasonographers
- Midwives
- Registered Nurse employed or engaged at Band 7 or Band 8 of Agenda for Change or their Independent sector equivalents
- Audiology
- Sleep/Respiratory Physiology
- Neurophysiology
- Cardiac Physiology
- Operating Theatre Nurse
- Clinical Radiology
- Pathology
- Critical Care (nurses working in wards with a Level 2 or Level 3 classification)
Other shortage occupations
- Actuaries
- Teachers – All posts in England and Scotland covering compulsory schooling
- Veterinary Surgeon
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