Wellbeing & Psychosocial Risk Lead

What if you could shape a career as unique as you? At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons.

What if you could shape a career as unique as you? At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons.

This is not a traditional corporate wellbeing role. It is a senior, programme-facing position for someone who understands how major programmes are established, governed, financed and delivered, and who can use that insight to shape leadership, culture and workforce performance from the outset.

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can draw on our global scale, contribute to landmark programmes and work with some of the brightest minds in the industry. This role offers the opportunity to influence how our most significant and complex programmes create the conditions for people to perform sustainably, safely and at their best.

Work alongside Programme Directors, leadership teams and executive sponsors on strategically important programmes.

Build trusted relationships with major clients, partners and delivery organisations, bringing challenge, judgement and practical solutions.

• Operate as a trusted adviser to Programme Directors, Project Leadership Teams and senior client stakeholders, with the credibility to contribute at senior leadership level.
• Engage early in programme set-up and mobilisation so that workforce wellbeing, psychosocial risk and sustainable performance are built into the delivery model, rather than added later.
• Understand the programme business case, financial and commercial model, contractual arrangements, governance structure, client commitments and delivery pressures, and use that understanding to shape proportionate solutions.
• Integrate wellbeing and psychosocial risk into programme governance, project management systems, HSEQ plans, assurance activity, leadership routines and performance reporting.
• Provide strategic advice during periods of mobilisation, transformation, delivery pressure, organisational change, critical incidents and programme recovery.
• Bring insight from across UK&I major projects and programmes to strengthen practice, improve consistency and inform global programme development.

• Build strong, credible relationships with major clients, joint venture and alliance partners, delivery teams and supply chain organisations.
• Understand what matters to the client and translate workforce risk and performance insight into clear actions that support programme outcomes.
• Contribute to major bids, pursuits and mobilisation activity by shaping differentiated wellbeing, psychosocial risk and workforce performance propositions.
• Help define deliverable commitments, measures and governance arrangements that are credible, commercially aware and capable of being implemented.
• Represent WSP confidently in senior client conversations, programme reviews, leadership workshops and external forums.

• Act as the senior subject matter lead for organisational wellbeing and psychosocial risk within major programme environments.
• Identify how programme design, leadership, workload, role clarity, interfaces, change, commercial pressure and ways of working may affect people and delivery.
• Lead or facilitate programme-level psychosocial and stress risk assessments, ensuring findings result in practical controls, clear ownership and measurable follow-through.
• Design targeted, evidence-based interventions that strengthen leadership capability, psychological safety, team effectiveness, workload management and workforce resilience.
• Ensure approaches align with relevant external guidance, including ISO 45003, and with WSP requirements and client commitments.
• Support proportionate responses to complex workforce wellbeing issues while working closely with HSEQ, HR and specialist colleagues.

• Use programme, workforce and organisational data to identify emerging risks, priorities and opportunities for…