Counsellors nec Vetassess skills assessment

What is skills assessment Occupations in this group include:

• Gambling Counsellor
• Grief Counsellor
• Life Coach
• Sexual Assault Counsellor
• Trauma Counsellor

Occupations not considered under this ANZSCO code:

Other occupations included in the ANZSCO Unit Group 2721 Counsellors:

• Careers Counsellor
• Drug and Alcohol Counsellor
• Family and Marriage Counsellor
• Rehabilitation Counsellor
• Student Counsellor

Psychologists are advised to contact the Australian Psychological Society for assessment as a psychologist for migration purposes.

What’re the Requirements for Skills Assessment

This occupation requires

A qualification which is assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher degree, in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation.

Applicants must also have at least one year of highly relevant, post-qualification employment at an appropriate skill level completed in the last five years.

A positive assessment of both qualification and employment is required for a positive Skills Assessment Outcome.

What’s the requirement for Qualification

AQF Bachelor degree or higher
Highly relevant major fields of study include:

• Counselling
• Psychotherapy

Fields of study usually deemed not highly relevant:

• Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Social Work
• Mental Health Nursing
• Special Education

What’s the requirement for Employment

Counsellors provide

• information on vocational, relationship, social and educational difficulties and issues,
• and work with people to help them to identify and define their emotional issues through therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy, interpersonal therapy
• and other talking therapies.

The occupation group Counsellors nec covers Counsellors not elsewhere classified in ANZSCO.

Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:

• conducting counselling interviews with individuals, couples and family groups
• presenting alternative approaches and discussing the potential for attitude
  and behaviour change
• may work in a call centre