Mental Health Specialist

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Date: 24 Jun 2025

Location: Melbourne, VIC, AU Adelaide, SA, AU Canberra, ACT, AU Perth, WA, AU Sydney, NSW, AU Any CSIRO site, AU Brisbane, QLD, AU Hobart, TAS, AU

Company: CSIRO

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The opportunity

 

  • Drive positive change by identifying and managing psychosocial risks across the organisation.
  • Take the lead in supporting complex mental health cases with expert guidance and care.
  • Innovate and deliver impactful wellbeing programs that shape a safer, healthier workplace culture.

 

Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) partners with all levels of the organisation, coaching and influencing individuals to take personal responsibility for safety. HSE is committed to driving future-focused, innovative programs that significantly enhance CSIRO’s wellbeing and safety culture.

 

The Mental Health Specialist is responsible for utilising their knowledge of psychological health and case management practices to monitor for organisational psychosocial risk factors and develop innovative programs to support CSIRO’s people in improving the organisation’s psychological wellbeing.

 

You will play a pivotal role in the triage of mental health and psychosocial cases reported through to the organisation and will provide advice on complex claims and case management, as well as manage a small cohort of complex cases.

 

Your duties will include:

 

  • Facilitate the delivery of psychosocial climate assessments, including engaging relevant stakeholders and using expertise to analyse and identify risk points, and advise on evidence- based ways to resolve or reduce psychosocial hazards.
  • Assist with the triage psychosocial hazards reported through incident reporting system or other networks and align with appropriate internal and external resources.
  • Identify and implement projects to enable strategic outcomes and improvement in psychosocial outcomes.
  • Guide, support and empower the HSE team to develop and support solutions to complex and challenging mental health and wellbeing issues and the psychosocial risk framework, in partnership with relevant workgroups.
  • Coach and educate the growth and development of people through knowledge sharing across relevant organisational teams utilising best practice and communities of practice to enhance the overall HSE performance.
  • Demonstrate flexibility and agility to actively contribute to multiple teams, manage multiple priorities, and supporting staff needs as required.
  • Develop, support, train and coach others in mental health and wellbeing initiatives.
  • Endorse HSE culture and lead by example, acknowledging and promoting key desired behaviours to enable the growth of a high performing, positive and proactive HSE culture across CSIRO.
  • Promote an informed culture by working closely and proactively with relevant HSE team members to ensure HSE knowledge, best practice and lessons learnt are shared across CSIRO.
  • Lead with technical expertise on a number of smaller projects or contribute as a generalist leading a range of support activities/functions.
  • Work independently to deliver results through the use and allocation of available resources within constraints advised by managers.
  • Be a proactive influence to assist decision makers when change is required and assist in initiating innovative solutions/proposals.

 

Location: All CSIRO sites considered

Salary: AU$114k - AU$123k plus 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Indefinite

Reference: 100576

To be considered you will need:

 

  • Relevant tertiary qualifications in a relevant medical or allied health field (preferably psychology, social work or nursing).
  • Demonstrated experience in psychological case management and rehabilitation within large or complex organisations.
  • Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of HSE legislation, codes of practice and standards.
  • A history of demonstrated professional and respectful behaviours and attitudes in a collaborative environment.
  • Demonstrated collaboration skills in the use and sharing of resources and knowledge across all teams, including the HSE function, to build and strengthen expertise in mental health and wellbeing across a large diverse organisation.
  • Proven ability to design, deliver and implement communication strategies (written and verbal – e.g., training) with consistent messaging relevant to all levels of the organisation.
  • Proven ability in planning, creating and maintaining effective teams and resources taking into account operational and strategic priorities of key stakeholders. Participates in ongoing knowledge transfer, open communication, coaching and collaboration across the HSE team and stakeholder groups in developing knowledge in mental health and wellbeing.
  • Proven ability to interpret legislation, regulatory standards and other related information, investigative skills to comprehend complex problems and information and develop appropriate responses for action.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan, set and work to meet challenging standards and goals for self and others to deliver impact that makes a difference.
  • Demonstrated ability to cope with ambiguity and change, including an open mindset to changing circumstances and new responsibilities in the interest of achieving team objectives.

 

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

 

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents or you must either hold, or be able to obtain, a valid working visa for the duration of the specified term. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Flexible working arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. 

Diversity and inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish. 

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact. 

 

CSIRO is committed to values-based leadership to inspire performance and unlock the potential of our people.

 

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to apply

Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.

Applications close

Sunday 20 July 2025, 11:00pm AEST