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Where a bereavement counsellor can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a bereavement counsellor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Bereavement counsellors support and guide patients and their families to better cope with the death of the loved ones by assisting them in emergent situations, at the hospices and at the memorial services. They train other professionals and communities anticipating the supportive needs of bereavement and responding to the education requirements.

Also known as bereavement social counsellor, family bereavement counsellor, bereavement advice counsellor, family and bereavement support officer, bereavement support worker, adult bereavement counsellor, bereavement service coordinator, bereavement support counsellor, bereavement counselor, bereavement officer, community bereavement support officer.

Professionals 46 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: drug and alcohol addiction counsellor, 83%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
social counsellor 68% covered sexual violence counsellor 81% covered social pedagogue 52% covered community health worker 47% covered drug and alcohol addiction co… 83% covered bereavement counsellor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from bereavement counsellor, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a bereavement counsellor already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A bereavement counsellor needs 45 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • help clients cope with grief assisting and caring
  • maintain a non-emotional involvement assisting and caring
  • respond to individuals' extreme emotions assisting and caring
  • stages of bereavement social sciences, journalism and information
  • encourage counselled clients to examine themselves communication, collaboration and creativity
  • help clients make decisions during counselling sessions assisting and caring
  • reflexion social sciences, journalism and information
  • cognitive behavioural therapy social sciences, journalism and information
  • have emotional intelligence assisting and caring
  • client-centred counselling health and welfare
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a bereavement counsellor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Bereavement counsellor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a bereavement counsellor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.