Psychosocial Health and Safety Specialist

Your role at St John of God Health Care

Responsible for leading the implementation of the organisation's Mental Health Roadmap. This role plays a critical leadership and support function in embedding psychosocial risk management practices and building capability across hospitals, services, and functions.

Working in close partnership with local OHS teams, HR practitioners, and operational leaders, the Psychosocial Health and Safety Specialist will provide expert guidance, coaching, tools, and frameworks to ensure consistent and effective delivery of evidence-based mental health and psychosocial strategies, in alignment with legislative obligations and the organisational strategy.

The Position

• Drive the implementation of the Mental Health Roadmap across hospitals, services, and functions.
• Translate strategic priorities into implementation plans that align with operational realities.
• Lead engagement activities to ensure commitment, ownership, and shared accountability at a local level.
• Provide direct coaching, mentoring and technical support to OHS, HR and operational managers in identifying, assessing, and managing psychosocial risks.
• Build capability of leaders to fulfil their responsibilities under WHS legislation, including creating psychologically safe teams and managing psychosocial hazards.
• Develop and facilitate practical training, tools, and workshops tailored to the needs of diverse clinical and non-clinical settings.
• Lead and support the implementation of psychosocial risk management processes in line with legislative requirements and best practice.
• Support local teams to identify appropriate controls and action plans to mitigate identified risks.
• Promote a risk management culture that prioritises prevention and early intervention.
• Act as a trusted advisor to leadership teams on mental health and psychosocial risk topics.
• Collaborate with relevant functions (e.g., Workforce, OHS, Risk, Mission Integration and Strategy and Planning) to ensure consistent messaging and shared approaches.
• Engage constructively with unions, regulatory bodies and other external stakeholders as needed.
• Support hospitals, services, and functions in collecting and analysing psychosocial risk data and workplace wellbeing metrics to inform continuous improvement.
• Enhance dashboards and progress reports to monitor implementation and provide insights into executive and board-level stakeholders.
• Identify system-wide trends risks and capability gaps to inform ongoing strategic refinement.

You will possess a tertiary qualification in psychology, occupational health and safety, organisational development, or a related field and demonstrate an advanced understanding of psychosocial hazards and relevant WHS frameworks (e.g., ISO 45003, Safe Work Australia model code, local jurisdictional legislation).

To succeed, you have proven experience in implementing mental health strategies or psychosocial risk programs in large, complex organisations — ideally across geographically dispersed sites. Demonstrated experience coaching and supporting operational leaders, OHS, and HR practitioners to implement safety and wellbeing practices, will be essential to this role.

As an experienced specialist you will demonstrate high level communication and engagement skills, including relationship building, empathy, negotiation, and conflict management skills to initiate, promote and support program implementation and change.

Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.

We can offer you.

• Salary: $154,196 to $171,339 per annum, plus 12% superannuation
• Permanent full-time opportunity, working 38 hours per week
• Based from our Perth CBD or Melbourne CBD offices.
• Central CBD location, close to bus and train stations
• 40% working from home arrangements

• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:

• Novated leasing

• work related expenses.
• self-education and
• additional superannuation
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave, and well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

For general enquiries regarding the recruitment process (including access to the position description), please contact Mel Schook, Team Leader Recruitment, on option 1.

For enquiries regarding specific details relating to the team or role please contact Frank Loss, Acting General Manager OHS & Wellness, on

If suitable candidates are identified advertisement may close prior to listed date and screening/interviews may be held throughout the advertising period - Apply today

St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.