Principal Consultant - Work Health Safety and Wellbeing

This is a permanent full-time position commencing November 2026

The Department’s Work Health Safety and Wellbeing Directorate comprises two branches: Safety and Staff Wellbeing and Employee Support Services. The Directorate is responsible for ensuring that legislative frameworks are complied with and that employees’ mental health and wellbeing are supported. It provides strategic and operational advice to the Minister, Director General, school leaders and line managers on a range of matters including:

• work health and safety (WHS)
• staff wellbeing
• employee assistance and mediation programs
• workers’ compensation
• injury management

The Role

Lead strategic workplace health safety and wellbeing initiatives that make a meaningful difference across the Department.  As Principal Consultant – Employee Support you will lead a specialist team providing strategic advice, support and services to principals, line managers and senior leaders.  You will play a key role in strengthening workplace health safety and wellbeing performance, improving injury management outcomes and building organisation capability.

Working as part of the Directorate leadership team, you will contribute to strategic planning and continuous improvement across work health safety and wellbeing. You will identify and analyse trends, strengthen reporting and inform evidence-based decision-making, using these insights to support targeted organisational improvement strategies and manage injury-related costs.

You will lead the development and continuous improvement of systems, governance and strategies that support effective …