Therapeutic Specialist

- Permanent, part time 0.8FTE role based in our Stirling office
- Community based organisation, steeped in a values-driven culture
- Not-for-profit salary packaging available (up to $15,900/annum)
- Generous leave provisions including birthday leave and 5 weeks annual leave after 2 years of service

We Are Key Assets Australia

Key Assets Australia (KAA) is a leading not-for-profit, children, family and community services agency, founded in Australia in 2007. We provide foster care and family services. Operating across all states, 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

As a Therapeutic Specialist, you will provide individual (carer/parent), family and systemic therapy, alongside specialist therapeutic consultation, to strengthen the quality of care for children and young people in Out-of-Home Care (OOHC) and Complex Care. You will support recovery, healing and developmental wellbeing, recognising carers as primary agents of change.

Reporting to the Principal Practitioner, you will partner with carers, families, youth workers, cultural practice leads and multidisciplinary teams to respond to highly complex presentations. You will balance direct therapeutic intervention with specialist assessment, case formulation,



Therapeutic Plan development and oversight, consultation, capacity building and reflective practice. Your work will promote consistent, evidence-based, trauma-informed and culturally safe care across home, education and community settings, including rural and remote communities when required.

Key responsibilities include:

- Provide specialist therapeutic support and consultation for children and young people with complex presentations, including developmental trauma, neurodevelopmental differences, disability, mental health challenges, high-risk behaviours and placement instability. Support carers, families and care teams to develop integrated responses that promote safety, connection, regulation and resilience.
- Provide evidence-based and trauma-informed therapeutic assessment and intervention to carers in applying therapeutic care to children and young people who have experienced complex trauma, recognising carers as primary agents of change.
- Implement brief and longer-term intensive clinical services to foster carers and families to strengthen family relationships, support placement stability, enhance attuned and sensitive caregiving, and support the family’s emotional wellbeing.




- Provide specialist case consultation and shared case formulation with multidisciplinary teams, including social/case workers, youth and support workers, schools, internal and external therapists and partner agencies. Advocate for children and young people and promote consistent therapeutic responses across care, education and community settings
- Take a lead role in promoting reflective practice across the service, facilitating reflective groups, consultations and learning opportunities that strengthen staff capacity to think systemically, maintain therapeutic curiosity, and apply trauma-informed approaches in their work with children, young people, carers and families.
- Conduct or contribute to holistic and specialised trauma, sensory and attachment assessments within your professional scope of practice. Lead the development, implementation, oversight and review of strengths-based Therapeutic Plans that integrate assessment findings, developmental needs and cultural needs.
- Support the development and ongoing review of risk assessment, risk management and safety plans, helping care teams identify triggers, protective factors, coping strategies and appropriate intervention pathways.
- Work alongside cultural practice leads, families, Elders and community organisations to support culturally safe care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people, strengthening identity, belonging and connection. Promote inclusive practice across diverse communities.
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and prepare professional assessments and reports with clear recommendations to support care planning, case co

📌 Therapeutic Specialist (Stirling)
🏢 Key Assets Australia
📍 Stirling