Posted: 11/11/2026

Closing Date: 11/12/2026

Salary: $118,500.00 - $130,000.00

Job Type: Full time Maximum Term (FM)

Location: Nambour QLD

Job Category: Psychology, Counselling & Social Work (Healthcare & Medical)

At Youturn, we're committed to creating safer, stronger communities through evidence-informed, person-centred services. As a trusted national not-for-profit, we support people through some of life's most challenging moments and work alongside communities to drive meaningful and lasting change.

We're excited to offer a newly created opportunity for an experienced and passionate Practice Specialist - Suicide Prevention & Postvention to join our Quality, Practice and Performance team.

This is not a traditional service delivery role.

Instead, you'll use your specialist expertise to influence practice quality, strengthen workforce capability, drive innovation, and shape the future direction of suicide prevention and postvention services across the organisation. Your expertise will support a diverse range of programs, including mental health, child safety and homelessness services, with a particular focus on strengthening postvention practice within StandBy Support After Suicide. You'll work alongside leaders, practitioners, subject matter experts and people with lived experience to ensure our services continue to reflect contemporary best practice and achieve meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve.

Job Description

Why This Role Matters

This newly established position has been created to provide specialist leadership across our suicide prevention and postvention programs.

You’ll Have The Opportunity To





- Influence organisational practice and service quality at a systems level.
- Lead workforce capability and practice development initiatives.
- Drive evidence-informed innovation and quality improvement.
- Contribute to strategic projects, service development and organisational growth.
- Build strong partnerships across the sector and represent Youturn as a recognised subject matter expert.

About You

We're seeking an accomplished practitioner with deep expertise in suicide prevention and postvention who is passionate about helping others grow, strengthening practice quality, and driving continuous improvement.

Desired Skills And Experience

You will bring:

Essential Qualifications

- Tertiary qualifications in:
- Master of Suicidology – highly preferred
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health Nursing
- Or another relevant health or human services discipline.

Essential Registrations & Accreditations

You must hold current professional registration, accreditation or credentialing relevant to your discipline, including:

- AHPRA Registration (Psychology, Occupational Therapy or Nursing), or
- AASW Mental Health Accreditation, or
- PACFA Clinical Registration, or
- ACA Level 4 Clinical Counsellor accreditation.

Essential Experience

- Extensive contemporary experience in suicide prevention and postvention practice.




- A minimum of 5 years' specialist experience within the field.
- Advanced knowledge of mental health, evidence-based interventions, theories and clinical practice in the area of suicide prevention and postvention.
- Experience providing specialist consultation and expert advice on complex practice matters.
- Strong capability in workforce development, training, facilitation and professional education.
- Experience leading practice development, quality improvement or service development initiatives.
- The ability to translate research, evidence and sector developments into practical, real-world improvements.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills and experience building partnerships across health, mental health and community service sectors.
- We highly value lived and living experience expertise and welcome applicants who bring personal, family/carer or other relevant lived experience of suicide alongside their professional expertise

What You’ll Be Doing

- Provide specialist advice and practice leadership across suicide prevention and postvention services.
- Design and deliver training, education and workforce capability initiatives.
- Support practice consultations relating to complex presentations and service challenges.
- Lead quality improvement and organisational learning initiatives.
- Contribute to service model design, strategic projects, tenders and program development.
- Monitor emerging evidence, policy and legislative developments to ensure best-practice service delivery.
- Build sector partnerships and represent Youturn within relevant networks and forums.

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📌 Practice Specialist (Australia)
🏢 Youturn
📍 Australia