About us
Zonta House Refuge Association (Zonta House) is a specialist provider of family and domestic violence (FDV) services. Our purpose, values, and services have been informed through 40 years of experience, the needs of victim-survivors of FDV in our community, and research in leading practice.
Zonta House provides holistic services to support individuals, children and families and facilitates education to contribute to social and systems change to prevent and stop FDV. Victim-survivors of FDV are able to access responsive and person-centred support based on their needs to build a future free from abuse and thrive.
About the role
We are seeking a Parenting Counsellor to support women in custody and post‑release to strengthen their parenting skills, rebuild family relationships, and transition safely back into their communities.
You will provide trauma‑informed, culturally responsive parenting support to women at Bandyup and Boronia Prisons and in the community. This role focuses on helping mothers develop confidence in their parenting, understand child development, and maintain healthy connections with their children and families.
This is a part-time position 22.5 hours a week on a fixed-term contract until June 2027. This role will be based in Gosnells, with travel required across the Perth Metropolitan area.
Key responsibilities
Key Selection Criteria
Experience in custodial, justice, or throughcare settings is desirable.
The successful candidate will need to possess:
The Benefits
To apply for this position
Simply click on the 'Apply' button and submit a cover letter addressing the selection criteria (no longer than two pages) and your current resume. Applications with no selection criteria addressed will not be accepted.
Applications close on 20th May 2026 at 5:00pm AWST.
Zonta House promotes a workplace that values and fosters the diversity of our staff. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people of all ages.
If you have a specific query, contact Lyndsey, Outreach Team Leader on 0430 392 930.
Zonta House reserves the right to commence interviews with suitable applicants immediately.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
