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Overview
Sexual violence counsellor work is about providing crisis care, support and counselling to women and adolescents affected directly or indirectly by sexual assault or rape.
In job descriptions, look for trauma-informed counselling, confidentiality, safety planning, legal-procedure information, protective services, youth development, inter-professional cooperation and support around harmful sexualised behaviour.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Sexual violence counsellor work is centred on crisis support, counselling and confidential guidance after sexual assault or rape. Sessions may include safety planning, emotional stabilisation and information about protective services.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include client-centred counselling, trauma awareness, youth development, social justice principles and inter-professional cooperation. Some roles focus on adolescents, child sexualised behaviour, advocacy or crisis-care coordination.
Salary context
Salary context depends on caseload complexity, crisis rota, safeguarding responsibility, cooperation with legal or protection services and whether the counsellor leads cases or supervises service quality.
Career paths
Paths can start in social counselling, youth work, victim support, psychology support or crisis services. Development may move toward specialist trauma counselling, case leadership, service coordination or training colleagues.
Good to know
Read adverts carefully for service users, confidentiality duties and crisis boundaries. Strong postings state whether the role includes legal-procedure information, child behaviour work, safeguarding and cooperation with other professionals.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for exploring the occupation, not official statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Occupation group
social counsellor (2635.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b9dd2ee7-5fea-46f8-b226-ddae9501f728 |
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| ESCO code | 2635.1.5 |
| ISCO group | 2635 |
| Concept type | Occupation |