Why become a Financial Counsellor?
Financial counselling is a rewarding career where you can work within your local community to address financial hardship, relieve financial pressure and stress, and empower people to rebuild financial security and personal confidence about money. It involves a blend of skills including understanding credit products, credit and bankruptcy law, assessing a person’s financial position, personal and systemic advocacy to creditors and industry ombudsman services, and interpersonal counselling.
How to become a Financial Counsellor
In order to work as a financial counsellor you must complete the required qualification (CHC51115 Diploma of Financial Counselling), be eligible for membership of a state based financial counselling association, complete the required amount of professional development annually and receive professional supervision.
There are numerous career pathway options; more information can be found here.