AHPRA Referral for Paramedic Competency Assessments
This website is to assist those individuals (candidates) who have been referred for a Paramedic Competency Assessment by AHPRA on behalf of the Paramedicine Board of Australia. In the initial phase of this process, candidates are requested to send an email to schedule their individual competency assessment.
Email: enquiries@paramedicassessments.com
Assessment Centres are located throughout Australia and provide a range of assessment dates for candidates to choose from. Regardless of where a candidate is located, the candidate may choose to undertake their assessment in any one of the approved Assessment Centres (WA, SA, NSW, VIC, QLD). There are no testing locations within the Northern Territory or Tasmania.
Assessment Centres & AHPRA
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) provides support to the National Boards for each profession covered by the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (NRAS). As part of the AHPRA role, the Paramedicine Board (‘the Board’) has adopted best practice approaches to regulation and registration functions, including deciding whether an individual applicant for registration as a paramedic is able to practice competently and safely.
As part of the registration process, the Paramedicine Board has determined that some applicants may be required to, or be given the option of, undertaking a competence assessment to demonstrate they are able to practice paramedicine competently and safely. The competency assessment is one aspect of their application for registration and passing a competency assessment does not automatically result in registration, which is a multi-faceted process.
Five Universities, as a consortium, conduct competency assessments for the paramedicine profession on behalf of the Paramedicine Board of Australia. They are a completely separate financial entity from The Paramedicine Board.
The consortium members do not provide short-courses or instruction for candidates who have been referred for competency assessment. For information on paramedic capabilities please refer to the Board’s website. For information on the content of the assessment please see the Assessments page on this website.
Paramedic Assessments
In Collaboration with the AHPRA and the Paramedicine Board of Australia