Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

bereavement counsellortosexual violence counsellor

A bereavement counsellor already meets 81% of what the sexual violence counsellor role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From bereavement counsellor
81%
Overlap1
To sexual violence counsellor
44 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
32 Difficulty2
Career overlap Very strong match

81%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

32/ 100

1 Share of the sexual violence counsellor role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the bereavement counsellor profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A sexual violence counsellor role treats 43 of its required skills as things a bereavement counsellor already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • apply quality standards in social services
  • apply socially just working principles
  • assess social service users' situation
  • behavioural therapy
  • build helping relationship with social service users

What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 44 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A sexual violence counsellor role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a bereavement counsellor background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held maintain a non-emotional involvement assisting and caring
  • already held respond to individuals' extreme emotions assisting and caring
  • already held encourage counselled clients to examine themselves communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held help clients make decisions during counselling sessions assisting and caring
  • already held reflexion social sciences, journalism and information
  • already held cognitive behavioural therapy social sciences, journalism and information

All 44 carried skills, including the 43 the sexual violence counsellor role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 10 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 assisting and caring 4 required
  • required, not held facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault required
  • required, not held support young victims of sexual assault required
  • required, not held work on the effects of abuse required
  • required, not held screen clients required
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 required
  • required, not held promote the safeguarding of young people required
  • required, not held support the positiveness of youths required
03 social sciences, journalism and information 2 required
  • required, not held strategies for handling cases of sexual assault required
  • required, not held adolescent psychological development required
04 health and welfare 1 required
  • required, not held sexual disorders required
05 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held assess the development of youth required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a sexual violence counsellor role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 44 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held apply quality standards in social services skill
  • already held apply socially just working principles skill
  • already held assess social service users' situation skill
  • already held behavioural therapy knowledge
  • already held build helping relationship with social service users skill
  • already held client-centred counselling knowledge
  • already held cognitive behavioural therapy knowledge
  • already held communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields skill
  • already held communicate with social service users skill
  • already held cooperate at inter-professional level skill
  • already held counselling methods knowledge
  • already held deliver social services in diverse cultural communities skill
  • already held demonstrate leadership in social service cases skill
  • already held encourage counselled clients to examine themselves skill
  • already held follow health and safety precautions in social care practices skill
  • already held have emotional intelligence skill
  • already held help clients make decisions during counselling sessions skill
  • already held human psychological development knowledge
  • already held legal requirements in the social sector knowledge
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held maintain a non-emotional involvement skill
  • already held maintain records of work with service users skill
  • already held maintain the trust of service users skill
  • already held manage social crisis skill
  • already held manage stress in the work place skill
  • already held organise relapse prevention skill
  • already held perform therapy sessions skill
  • already held promote human rights skill
  • already held promote inclusion skill
  • already held promote social change skill
  • already held provide social counselling skill
  • already held psychological theories knowledge
  • already held psychology knowledge
  • already held refer social service users skill
  • already held reflexion knowledge
  • already held relate empathetically skill
  • already held report on social development skill
  • already held respond to individuals' extreme emotions skill
  • already held social justice knowledge
  • already held social sciences knowledge
  • already held supervision of persons knowledge
  • already held undertake continuous professional development in social work skill
  • already held support traumatised children skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
2 held skills the sexual violence counsellor role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role help clients cope with grief skill
  • not needed by the target role stages of bereavement knowledge
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held sexual disorders required
  • required, not held strategies for handling cases of sexual assault required
  • required, not held adolescent psychological development required
Index
Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.