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Senior Principal Consultant Health Safety and Wellbeing
People and Culture, Corporate, Brisbane City
Bring legacy to life. For the future of Queensland and the world.
Lead the design and delivery of innovative, prevention-focused psychosocial risk initiatives. You’ll work across diverse operational settings, partner with leaders, and help shape a healthy, respectful, and resilient workplace culture.
If you’re passionate about improving mental health and safety outcomes at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
Just imagine what you could achieve with us #DPIcareers
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Flexible full-time |
| Occupational group | HR & Industrial Relations |
| Classification | AO7 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane Inner City |
| Job ad reference | QLD/644699/25 |
| Closing date | 08-Jul-2025 |
| Job duration | 12 months with possible extension |
| Contact person | Ksenia Wagenveld |
| Contact details | Mobile: 0436 603 793 Access the National Relay Service |
About the role
As our Principal Consultant Health Safety and Wellbeing (Psychosocial) you will:
• Be responsible for the sustainable delivery of psychosocial risk management programmes across the department.
• Continue to develop and build on the department's work health and safety psychosocial risk assessments and improvement plans throughout our varied business areas.
• Provide consultancy services and advice to business groups and senior officers in addressing psychosocial WHS risks and issues.
• Coordinate early intervention response for incidents with psychosocial risks present.
• Lead the development of, present and facilitate briefings and workshops for management and staff, focusing on preventing and reducing the harm arising from psychosocial hazards.
• Lead the development and implantation of a peer support programme to assist in early intervention of mental illness or injury.
• Maintain a high level of knowledge of contemporary WHS management of psychosocial hazards, to ensure currency of knowledge and skills to provide appropriate outcomes or solutions for clients.
• Coach, mentor and support your managers, HSW practitioners and HR practitioners to minimise psychosocial hazards.
• Undertake research and analysis of organisational data to identify trends, opportunities, issues and challenges, centring on psychosocial WHS and present as required to HSW Committees.
You may also have
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline such as Work Health and Safety, Psychology or Human Resources
Why work for us
Learn why our people choose DPI and more importantly why they stay.
• Work with passion and purpose
• Have a tangible impact, for today and tomorrow
• Enjoy interesting, diverse work
• Follow your path wherever it leads
• Get the flexibility and support you need to thrive
• Be part of our one, diverse DPI
Find purpose you feel, impact you see and a legacy you bring to life.
• Join us and be a part of our dedicated corporate team helping to support all business areas of our department.
Visit www.dpi.qld.gov.au to learn more about us and what we do.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
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