Onsite Mental Health Coach/Counsellor

Ready to champion mental wellbeing through early intervention and preventative care?

This role offers the opportunity to make a real difference across diverse workplace settings, delivering proactive, people-centred support where it matters most.

About the Role

This role is ideal for a mental health professional who thrives on variety and values a preventative, impact-led approach to care. You’ll work across a range of workplaces delivering a blend of proactive interventions, from roaming wellbeing check-ins and 1:1 brief interventions to tailored group education and psychoeducational programs.

Your Impact

You’ll play a key role in embedding mentally healthy practices into the workplace by proactively connecting with individuals and teams, offering early support. Your work will include:

• Delivering short-term, solution-focused mental health coaching and 1:1 counselling via face-to-face, telehealth, and blended modalities
• Proactive “walking the floor” and wellbeing check-ins to engage employees and build rapport
• Facilitating toolbox talks and manager peer support to drive early engagement
• Supporting employees with personal and workplace challenges using solution-focused approaches
• Developing and documenting tailored support plans and facilitating warm referrals to GPs, EAPs, or specialist services
• Leading group education sessions on resilience, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, stress and change management, and psychosocial risk
• Collaborating with Onsite Injury Prevention Specialists and other key stakeholders to deliver integrated, client-focused care

What We’re Looking For

• We’re seeking a mental health professional who brings both clinical expertise and a practical, people-first approach.
• Relevant qualifications in and current registration with PACFA (Level 3+), ACA (Level 3+), AHPRA, or AASW
• 3+ years’ experience in short-term counselling, mental health coaching, or similar brief intervention support
• Skilled group facilitator or presenter, with excellent time management and communication strengths
• Proven ability to engage confidently across a range of workplace settings, industries, and client groups
• Solid understanding of common workplace mental health challenges and psychosocial risk factors
• Comfortable working independently and adapting to different onsite environments

About Us

The Occ Health Group, comprising Bodycare, Healthworks, MOHR, BodycareNZ & Tangible Health, has been a leader in occupational health and employee wellbeing across Australia and New Zealand since 2000.

Drawing on over two decades of expertise, we deliver tailored solutions in injury prevention, occupational health and safety consulting, comprehensive workplace health services, and integrated wellbeing programs. Our offerings include preventative health checks, skin cancer screening, mental health support, ergonomic assessments, injury management, and more.

Our multidisciplinary team; including Nurses, Dietitians, Exercise Physiologists, Mental Health professionals, and GPs, works collaboratively to create healthier, safer, and more resilient workplaces. Guided by our core values Proactivity, Innovation, Integrity, and Communication, we are dedicated to empowering individuals and organisations, keeping workers healthy, safe, and injury-free

Eager to champion mental wellbeing and early intervention? – Apply now and become part of a team dedicated to proactive, people-centred care.