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Rehabilitation Counsellor resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what rehabilitation counsellors actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most rehabilitation counsellors should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Rehabilitation Counsellor with experience supporting clients through injury, illness and disability to achieve vocational and personal goals. Skilled in functional capacity assessment, return-to-work planning and counselling, with a collaborative approach to coordinating employers, insurers and health professionals. Committed to reducing long-term disadvantage and helping people recover and stay in work.
Key skills
- Counselling and support work
- Rehabilitation and therapy
- Casework and client support
- Written communication
- Empathy and interpersonal care
- Stakeholder management
- Problem solving
- Civica
- Mastercare
- Penelope
- Microsoft Office
- Comcare
Experience: example bullet points
- Assessed clients' functional capacity and barriers to employment, developing individualised rehabilitation plans that supported return to suitable duties.
- Counselled clients adjusting to injury, illness or disability, helping them set practical vocational goals and build confidence in their recovery.
- Coordinated with employers, insurers and health professionals to implement return-to-work plans, clarifying responsibilities and reducing delays in approvals.
- Monitored client progress and modified rehabilitation strategies, maintaining accurate case notes in Civica, Mastercare and Penelope.
- Managed a varied caseload across workers compensation and life insurance schemes, ensuring plans met Comcare and insurer requirements.
Education
A bachelor degree is the typical pathway, often in rehabilitation counselling, psychology, social work or a related field, with postgraduate study common for senior or specialised roles.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Return to work
- Functional capacity evaluation
- Injury management
- Workers compensation
- Comcare
- SIRA
- WorkSafe
- ASORC
- Case management
- Rehabilitation plan
- Vocational assessment
- NDIS
- Medicare
- Life insurance
- Superannuation
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.