Psychosocial Health Lead

Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) is Victoria’s newest public mental health service dedicated to the care of young people aged 12 to 25 experiencing complex mental health challenges. We exist to walk alongside young people, their families, carers, supporters, and kin, delivering care that is accessible, inclusive, developmentally appropriate, evidence-informed, and grounded in lived experience. Our service model is shaped by the voices of young people and their communities, and underpinned by a commitment to safety, equity, and continuous learning.

About the Role

As Psychosocial Health Lead, you will provide specialist leadership across PYMHWS’s approach to psychological health and safety. This is a senior specialist role with genuine organisational scope. You’ll work across clinical, operational, and corporate teams to strengthen how we identify, assess, and control psychosocial hazards, with a particular focus on work design, occupational violence and aggression, trauma exposure, psychological safety, early intervention, and organisational wellbeing.

• Lead organisation-wide psychosocial hazard identification, risk assessment, and control.
• Work with leaders, workers, and Health and Safety Representatives to understand how psychosocial risks arise in practice.
• Support analysis of workload, work design, staffing, systems, organisational change, and other drivers of psychosocial risk.
• Lead the development and monitoring of psychosocial risk registers, control plans, and improvement actions.
• Provide specialist expertise in occupational violence, aggression, and trauma-related psychosocial risk.
• Support psychologically safe work practices and organisational wellbeing initiatives.

Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work, occupational health and safety, human resources, organisational development, wellbeing, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading psychosocial hazard identification, risk assessment, and control in a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of Victorian occupational health and safety legislation and psychosocial risk requirements.
• A strong understanding of contemporary psychosocial risk management, work design, and systems-based approaches to psychological health and safety.
• Experience developing, implementing, and evaluating organisational risk controls.
• Strong consultation, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills.
• The ability to translate complex risk information into practical, workable solutions.
• Confidence working with senior leaders, workers, HSRs, and specialist functions across an organisation.
• Sound judgement when supporting sensitive workplace matters and early intervention responses.

Experience in mental health, healthcare, community services, or another high-risk human services environment would be highly regarded, as would experience in occupational violence, trauma exposure, or critical incident recovery.

Benefits

• Salary packaging options, up to $11,600 tax-free earnings.
• 5 weeks annual leave plus monthly ADO for full-time employees.
• Flexible working arrangements including remote work options where possible.
• Employee wellbeing focused, access to EAP.
• Fitness Passport membership.
• Flexible, inclusive, and supportive workplace culture.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Full-time, ongoing position based in Melbourne CBD.