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The Board’s Registration standard: Specialist registration sets out the requirements for specialist registration.
To be eligible for specialist registration from 21 October 2024, you need to have successfully completed cultural safety education.
Ahpra is currently developing a multi-year National Cultural Safety Accreditation and Continuing Professional Development and upskilling Framework and Strategy. This aims to protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples by eliminating racism from the healthcare system.
The Framework and Strategy will develop nationally consistent standards, codes, and guidelines for registered practitioners on cultural safety for accreditation and continuing professional development.
Until this is in place, the following applies.
To meet the Board’s requirements for cultural safety education, you must complete a course that meets the minimum requirements set out in the Board’s Policy: Cultural safety education requirements for specialist registration.
Appropriate cultural safety education courses will be approved by the Board, on the advice of Ahpra's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategy Group.
The approved training will include:
Approved cultural safety education courses and providers will be published shortly.
The following documents outline the documentary evidence that you must submit with your application for specialist registration: