About Us:

• Children by Choice is a powerhouse of an organisation established over 50 years ago.
• We are recognised nationally and internationally as a leading advocacy group for reproductive and sexual health.
• Our vision is to empower individuals to freely and safely make their own reproductive and sexual health choices without barriers.
• We provide Queensland-wide counselling, information, referral, and education services on all pregnancy options, including abortion, adoption, kinship, and alternative care and parenting.

Why Work With Us:

• Make a difference: Join a team dedicated to advocating for reproductive justice and providing compassionate care to pregnant individuals.
• Professional development: Engage in ongoing training and development opportunities to enhance your skills and knowledge in the field of reproductive health.
• Collaborative environment: Work alongside a team who value peer support, creativity, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Autonomy: Enjoy levels of individual autonomy while working within a supportive team environment.
• Impactful work: Play a key role in providing pro-choice decision-making counselling and supporting individuals in making informed choices about pregnancy options.
• Advocacy opportunities: Advocate for clients' needs and rights, including access to financial assistance, medical referrals, and public health pathways for abortion care.
• Continuous improvement: Contribute to data analysis, client feedback, and practice reflection to identify trends and inform practice development and service improvements.
• Work-life balance: Flexible working arrangements and a supportive work culture that values your well-being.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide all options pro-choice decision-making counselling to clients and their support people, supporting informed choices on pregnancy, parenting, adoption, and abortion.
• Offer pre and post-abortion counselling, and develop skills in evidence-based counselling modalities to support this area of practice.
• Maintain up-to-date referral information and develop effective working relationships with health and social system professionals.
• Record and maintain confidential counselling case notes and client statistics in accordance with professional standards.
• Support client self-advocacy and advocate on their behalf with their consent.
• Develop evidence-based information resources and deliver professional development for community, health, and allied health professionals, participate and engage in research projects.
• Caring work environment that provides professional external supervision and positive leadership.

skills and abilities

• Commitment to the goals of Children by Choice and the right to choose abortion.
• Possession of a degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling, Human Services or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability, skills and experience in counselling women from a feminist perspective.
• An ability to work collaboratively within a team environment including excellent communication skills, strong computer, database management, and administration skills, as well as the ability to work proactively and autonomously.
• Demonstrated skills and commitment to client advocacy including the ability to support clients to navigate health service pathways, link with local community supports and source financial support options.
• Detailed knowledge of (or capacity to rapidly acquire) women's health issues, in particular reproductive health, pregnancy options support and abortion care.
• Capacity to contribute to systemic initiatives around abortion access including delivery, research and analysis, project planning and campaigning.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook). Ability to quickly become familiar with and manage databases, and filing systems.
• Ability to plan your time effectively to manage competing demands, including work/life balance and management of burnout and self-care.

A position description is attached.