Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a sexual violence counsellor can go next

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

Sexual violence counsellors provide support services, crisis care services and counselling to women and adolescents who have been directly or indirectly exposed to sexual assault and/or rape. They inform victims of the relevant legal procedures and protective services maintaining client confidentiality. They also address problematic sexualized behaviours of children.

Also known as victim support worker, sexual violence counselor, sexual violence advisor, sexual assault social counselor, domestic violence counsellor, victim care worker, sexual violence victim advocate, sexual violence support worker, sexual assault counsellor, victim care unit counsellor, victim care unit worker.

Professionals 54 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: social counsellor, 73%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
social counsellor 73% covered social pedagogue 61% covered community health worker 47% covered child care social worker 44% covered residential home young people… 44% covered sexual violence counsellor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from sexual violence 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 sexual violence 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 sexual violence counsellor needs 53 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
  • facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault assisting and caring
  • support young victims of sexual assault assisting and caring
  • strategies for handling cases of sexual assault social sciences, journalism and information
  • maintain a non-emotional involvement assisting and caring
  • respond to individuals' extreme emotions assisting and caring
  • 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
  • sexual disorders health and welfare
  • cognitive behavioural therapy social sciences, journalism and information
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Sexual violence 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 sexual violence 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.