VOCATIONAL ASSESSMENT ADELAIDE
Helping individuals and organisations make informed, future-focused employment decisions.
Our vocational assessments focus on understanding a person’s strengths, abilities, and potential at work. We assess cognitive skills, aptitudes, and competencies, and explore how these align with suitable roles. Led by an experienced Psychologist or Rehabilitation Counsellor, this assessment is available to people in Adelaide through the NDIS or workers’ compensation.
when might a vocational assessment be required?
A vocational assessment is an evidence‑based process used to evaluate an individual’s suitability for redeployment or job matching. It examines actual and potential abilities, cognitive skills, aptitudes, and competencies, relating these findings to available roles within an organisation. Vocational assessments can serve as a valuable decision‑making tool in identifying appropriate and sustainable employment options.
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It can be a suitable tool to:
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Explore new or other suitable employment options when a worker has not been able to achieve a return to work within 6 months of injury.
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Validate current employment.
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Make an offer for new employment so as to fulfill legislative requirements.
The Vocational Assessment Process
what's included in a vocational assessment?
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questionnaires & assessments
Prior to the assessment session, you will be asked to complete a series of questionnaires and preliminary assessments. This information enables the Psychologist or Rehabilitation Counsellor (assessor) to prepare thoroughly and identify key areas for exploration, ensuring the session is structured, individualised, and focused on clinically meaningful outcomes and next steps.
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assessment
meeting
Your assessment session with one of our assessors will take up to 1.5 hours. During this time, you’ll have a guided discussion about your current situation, goals, interests, values, education and training background, and what meaningful work means to you. This conversation helps us develop a clear understanding of your strengths, preferences, and potential vocational pathways.
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comprehensive report
After your assessment, the assessor will develop a comprehensive vocational assessment report. This report combines insights from your questionnaires, assessment session, and professional evaluation to outline four to five real‑world job opportunities that align with your strengths, interests, skills, and current capacity. These recommendations are practical and realistic, reflecting roles that exist in today’s workforce to help clarify potential vocational pathways and next steps.
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About the vocational assessment
Assessment benefits and outcomes
Our psychologists take a holistic approach to vocational assessment, considering factors ranging from pre‑injury capacity to the influence of non‑compensable conditions. Each assessment is individually tailored, with careful consideration of the functional, cognitive and psychosocial demands outlined in relevant job analyses and position descriptions. This comprehensive approach supports the identification of vocational options that are both suitable and sustainable, and that align with each individual’s abilities, goals and overall wellbeing.​
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The resulting Vocational Assessment report provides you with:
objective reporting
Objective, transparent reporting that correlates the workers' current abilities and skills (based on the work they have been doing and have done in the past) and considers their overall aptitude to learn new skills, train and adapt to change.
supporting information
Supporting information and detailed results included within the Vocational Assessment report and presented in an appendix to enable ease of use.
additional guidance
Provides guidance on how an employee can be supported to move into an alternative role within the organisation, ie: through training/learning and behavior change consideration.
​The report can be shared with medical practitioners to assess suitability for alternative employment.
Meet our assessment psychologists
who leads a vocational assessment?
Our Vocational Assessments are led by experienced psychologists or rehabilitation counsellors. Psychologists leading a Vocational Assessment will have a background in return to work and / or organisational psychology.
