Using Sonia? Its support is winding down - and this time, you deserve a say in what comes next. See how Engageable helps you move →
The Australian placement platform

The placement platform you govern.

Engageable has worked inside Australian and New Zealand university placement programs since 2018 - assessing practicum competencies, tracking practitioners to registration, and now managing placements on a roadmap steered by the universities themselves. Built here. Hosted here. Supported by the people who make it.

Australian owned, built & hosted Trusted by 17+ universities since 2018 Start with one program, one term
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Australian data hosting - Sydney · Capped, predictable pricing · Purpose-built for AU & NZ · Real-time human support
Three products

From placement office to registration - one continuous journey

Engageable supports the whole professional pathway: manage placements across the institution, assess competencies on placement, then track practitioners to full registration.

For placement & WIL teams

Engageable Placements

Placement management, made in Australia.

Placement management for universities, one program at a time - run compliance, workflows and reporting on our proven platform today, and steer what comes next through the founding consortium. The right-sized path off Sonia.

  • Pre-placement compliance & document tracking
  • Placement workflows, reminders & reporting
  • Start with one program - expand as it proves out
  • Consortium roadmap: allocations at scale & accreditation reporting
  • Guided, program-by-program migration from Sonia
For universities

Placement Review

Assess practicum competencies with confidence.

The online platform used by Australian and New Zealand universities to evaluate Clinical and Professional Psychology trainees during placement - with validated tools, structured reports, and trainee self-assessment built in.

  • VMAT-CΨPRS for Clinical Psychology programs
  • PCAM for Master of Professional Psychology
  • 14 validated competence domains
  • Used by 17+ subscribing institutions
  • Backed by 18+ peer-reviewed publications
For practitioners

Practice Ready

You focus on clients. We handle the compliance.

Compliance and logbook management for psychologists - track practice hours, supervision and CPD against AHPRA and Psychology Board of Australia requirements, from your phone or desktop.

  • Quick logging with voice or text entry
  • Automatic supervision ratio tracking (5+1 pathway)
  • CPD mapped to the 8 core competencies
  • Board-ready progress reports (PDF/Word)
  • iOS & Android apps included
The platform behind it

See Engageable in action

Every Engageable product shares the same foundations: secure, compliant, purpose-built - and always backed by humans.

Placement management, program by program

Bring a program's placements onto the platform in weeks - compliance status, workflows, agreements and reporting, with terminology that matches how your program actually runs. Then expand, with allocations at scale and accreditation reporting co-designed through the founding consortium.

  • Pre-placement checks with automated status & alerts
  • Placement workflows, reminders and sign-offs
  • Program-level dashboards and exports
  • Consortium roadmap: high-volume allocations & clash detection

About Engageable Placements →

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Structured competency assessment

Supervisors rate trainees across 14 evidence-based competence domains using validated instruments - VMAT-CΨPRS for Clinical programs and PCAM for Master of Professional Psychology programs.

  • Mid & End Placement review modules
  • Standardised vignettes reduce rater bias
  • Trainee self-assessment built in
  • Institution-level reporting for coordinators

About Placement Review →

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Compliance without the paperwork

Practice Ready tracks every practice hour, supervision session and CPD activity against AHPRA requirements automatically - so provisional psychologists, registrars and supervisors always know exactly where they stand.

  • Voice or text logging in seconds
  • Automatic 1:17 / 1:18 supervision ratio tracking
  • Weekly logbook summaries for supervisor sign-off
  • Board-ready reports, one tap away

About Practice Ready →

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Secure by design, sovereign by default

University and health data deserves the strongest protection - and it deserves to stay in Australia. Every Engageable product ships with security, privacy and data-residency controls built in from day one.

  • Data hosted in Australia (Sydney)
  • Encryption in transit and at rest
  • Role-based access for institutions, supervisors and students
  • Audit logging and security documentation for procurement

How we work →

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Why Engageable

Your placement platform shouldn't be someone else's roadmap.

The sector has just learned what happens when a placement system's future is decided in someone else's portfolio. Engageable is structurally different: our roadmap is steered by a consortium of the universities who use it - the same governance model that has run Placement Review since 2018.

  • Governed with universities - consortium-steered roadmap
  • Right-sized: one program in weeks, not a year-long rollout
  • Human-first: real support, not ticket queues
  • Honest and predictable: capped price rises, multi-year locks
Engageable at a glance
17+
Subscribing institutions across AU/NZ
3
Products, one continuous journey
18+
Peer-reviewed publications behind our tools
100%
Australian owned, built and supported
Who we work with

Built for everyone in the journey

From the placement office to the practice room, Engageable supports the whole professional pathway.

Universities & Placement Teams

  • End-to-end placement management across programs
  • Standardised practicum assessment across sites
  • Institution-level reporting and cohort oversight
  • Migration support for teams leaving Sonia
Engageable Placements for institutions →

Practitioners & Registrars

  • Log hours, supervision and CPD in seconds
  • Stay compliant with AHPRA requirements
  • Board-ready reports whenever you need them
  • Mobile apps for iOS and Android
Practice Ready for practitioners →
How we work

Start small. Scale thoughtfully.

Every Engageable engagement follows the same low-risk path - proven with universities and health organisations across Australia.

1

Launch a pilot

Start with a low-risk pilot - one program, one cohort, one term. Migrating from another system? We map and move your data as part of the pilot.

2

Expand with confidence

Add programs, custom features and integrations as your needs grow. Our modular platform scales with you.

3

Lean on real humans

Dedicated support from the team that builds the product - onboarding, training and help when you need it.

Built on research

Software with an evidence base

Our tools didn't start as software - they started as research. Placement Review grew from a multi-site research programme funded by ALTC and OLT grants, and is now developed with a consortium of subscribing institutions. Engageable Placements and Practice Ready carry that same rigour into placement management and professional practice.

2010 ALTC Research Grant 2014 OLT Innovation Grant Multi-site validation 18+ publications
Featured publication

"Innovations in competence assessment: Design and initial validation of the Vignette Matching Assessment Tool (VMAT)."

Gonsalvez, C. J., Deane, F. P., Terry, J., Nasstasia, Y., & Shires, A. (2021). Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 15(2).
About the research →
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