Carer Assessment Practitioner

- Salary:

- Salary + Vehicle & Fuel Card + Mobile

- Location:

- Adelaide

- Documentation:

- Job Description

- Employment Type:

- FT - Full-Time Temporary

- Department:

- Recruitment & Panel Manager College Park

- Closing Date:

- 25 Mar 2026

Carer Assessment Practitioner

- Newly developed position with opportunity for further growth
- Join a highly engaged, professional, and collaborative team
- Community based organisation, steeped in a values-driven culture

We Are Key Assets Australia

Key Assets is a leading not-for-profit, children, family and community services agency, founded in Australia in 2007. We provide foster care & family services. Operating across all states, the ACT and Norfolk Island, our purpose is to achieve positive and lasting outcomes for children, families, and communities. To achieve that, we need people like you!

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and embrace and celebrate the diversity of all people within our communities. Our diversity helps us provide the best support possible to carers, families, children and young people and all of our external stakeholders.

A little about the role

Working closely with the carer recruitment and placement team, you will lead and present high-quality foster carer assessments, reviews and transfers using KAAs and ACWA tools, ensuring that children and young people are only placed with carers that meet the standards for fostering and kinship care.

Other key responsibilities include:

- Undertaking home visits, interviews with household members, reference checks, risk assessments, safety plans and all associated assessment tasks to determine carer suitability.
- Developing clear, accurate and critically analysed assessment reports that consider carer capacity, matching needs,



cultural considerations and children’s best interests.
- Maintaining accurate documentation and administrative records, ensuring privacy, quality and compliance with KAA policies, procedures and safeguarding requirements.
- Supporting others across the recruitment, placement and business support teams, and contributing to recruitment activities and training where required.

The base salary for this position is $100,776.00 - $105,340.56 /annum (based on 1.0EFT) + super + vehicle & fuel card + salary packaging options up to $15,900 per annum. This position is full-time, 12-month contract.

About you

You are an experienced assessor with strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills, able to balance thorough report writing with a compassionate, child-centred approach.

- You hold a degree in Social Work, Psychology, Human Services or a related Allied Health field, with at least 2 years’ experience as an assessor and a background in foster care, adoption or child welfare settings.
- You bring strong skills in interviewing, critical analysis and report writing, with the ability to evaluate risk, assess parenting capacity and form clear evidence-based recommendations.
- You communicate effectively with diverse individuals and families, demonstrating cultural awareness, sensitivity and the ability to navigate complex or challenging conversations.
- You are organised, detail-focused and able to manage competing priorities,



working both independently and collaboratively within a fast-paced team environment.
- You show resilience, professionalism and a commitment to safeguarding, diversity, social inclusion and providing high-quality service to carers, children and young people.

My Key Assets

The health and wellbeing of our people is at the core of our employee and client experience. All employee offerings are intentionally curated with care, allowing you to bring your best self to work, every day. Knowledge sharing, ongoing learning and development, engagement and recognition are key pillars in our culture and values.

- Work-Life Balance : We are well equipped to support a hybrid approach to the future of work and have developed a flexible work framework to support these arrangements. We understand that work-life balance is significant and accommodate flexibility for team members wherever possible. Flexible, family-friendly working arrangements and remote work - just ask us!
- Health and Wellbeing : We promote health and wellbeing for our people, just like we would for the children, families and communities we serve. We provide discounted health insurance and gym memberships, confidential counselling services and offer 5 weeks of annual leave after 2 years’ continuous service with us!
- Salary Packaging : part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, saving thousands in tax each year.

The fine print

- Applications close: Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 5pm ACDT
- Full driver’s license and travel between sites is required.
- Note for our recruiter network - we’re handling this recruitment in-house and kindly ask that agencies refrain from contacting us regarding this opportunity._

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