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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Organisational Safety and Wellbeing staff are employed at regional and corporate levels of the department in each of the key areas of health promotion, employee assistance, health and safety and injury management. Whilst your first point of contact for all organisational health matters should be your school or unit, further information and assistance may be obtained by contacting regional staff from the specialist areas.

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Staff Wellbeing Consultants

The Staff Wellbeing Team consists of a central office team and a Regional Wellbeing Consultant based in each region. The Staff Wellbeing Team provides strategic and operational advice to workplace leaders in central and regional office and schools. The Regional Wellbeing Consultants work directly with schools and regional teams to guide the planning implementation and evaluation of staff health and wellbeing initiatives (departmental staff search for 'planning staff wellbeing program' in OnePortal). Central office staff and managers are welcome to contact our central office or regional team members for information on resources available to support staff wellbeing in your workplace (departmental staff search for 'staff wellbeing' in OnePortal).

Region Wellbeing Consultants
Central office

Sue Alderton
Manager Staff Wellbeing and Principal
Wellbeing Consultant
Phone: (07) 3513 6566
Mobile: 0408 778 254
Email: Sue.Alderton@qed.qld.gov.au

Katrina Johnston (Thursday–Friday)
Manager, Staff Wellbeing
Mobile: 0459 872 009
Email: Katrina.Johnston@qed.qld.gov.au

Dr Belinda Gardner (Monday–Thursday)
Principal Wellbeing Consultant
Mobile: 0439 180 970
Email: Belinda.Gardner@qed.qld.gov.au

Mike Deguara (Monday–Wednesday)
Senior Wellbeing Consultant
Mobile: 0476 230 420
Email: Mike.Deguara@qed.qld.gov.au

Dr Karyn Healy (Monday–Wednesday)
Senior Advisor—Psychology
Phone: (07) 3513 6532
Email: Karyn.Healy@qed.qld.gov.au

Kate Dawson
Senior Wellbeing Consultant
Phone: (07) 3034 5838
Email: Kate.Dawson@qed.qld.gov.au

Staff Wellbeing
Email: StaffWellbeing.HR@qed.qld.gov.au

Regional Wellbeing Consultants

The department has Regional Wellbeing Consultants (RWCs) in all 8 regions to collaborate and support schools and regional office teams that would like assistance in implementing staff wellbeing initiatives.

The RWCs utilise best practice approaches including the 5-step process in the Staff wellbeing planning guide and Staff wellbeing framework, to assist schools within their region to plan, implement and evaluate staff health and wellbeing initiatives to improve the wellbeing of staff.

Region Wellbeing Consultants
Metropolitan North region Cass Marshall (Monday–Thursday)
Mobile: 0439 622 217
Email: Cass.Marshall@qed.qld.gov.au
Metropolitan South region Dr Connie Allen
Phone: 0467 324 262
Email: Connie.Allen@qed.qld.gov.au
South Coast region Disa Godson
Mobile: 0439 534 093
Email: Disa.Godson@qed.qld.gov.au
North Coast region Dan Bennett
Mobile: 0499 609 017
Email: Dan.Bennett@qed.qld.gov.au
Darling Downs South West region Christine Taylor
Phone: (07) 4616 7690
Email: Christine.Taylor@qed.qld.gov.au
Central Queensland region Michael Mlikota
Mobile: 0448 624 263
Email: Michael.Mlikota@qed.qld.gov.au
North Queensland region Emme Wild
Mobile: 0439 613 548
Email: Emme.Wild@qed.qld.gov.au
Far North Queensland region Katelyn Winkworth
Mobile: 0448 447 561
Email: Katelyn.Winkworth@qed.qld.gov.au
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Last updated 26 September 2024