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Workplace CultureWorkplace wellbeing programs for healthcare teams
Healthcare teams carry a load few other workplaces do: emotionally demanding work, shift rosters, workforce shortages and the constant pressure of caring for others. Holistic Services Group has supported hospitals, health services, foundations and medical organisations across Australia since 2003, with programs designed to help clinical and non-clinical staff stay well.
HSG’s workplace wellbeing programs for healthcare are mental health, resilience and physical wellbeing services delivered to hospitals, health services, medical organisations and health-sector employers, including mental health and resilience workshops, leadership and manager support, corporate massage, yoga and movement, and ergonomics. Programs are delivered onsite across Australia and online nationwide, and can be scheduled around shift rosters.
Common workplace wellbeing challenges in healthcare
Healthcare workplaces share a distinct set of pressures:
- Compassion fatigue from sustained emotional and caring work
- Shift work and the fatigue and recovery demands it brings
- Burnout, particularly during periods of high demand and short staffing
- Mental health and the need for psychologically safe teams
- Workforce retention amid ongoing shortages
Why it matters for healthcare
Healthcare teams are working under sustained emotional pressure while workforce shortages place additional strain on service delivery, retention and the people who remain.
- Mental health claims are rising: mental health conditions now account for 12% of all serious workers’ compensation claims and result in a median 35.7 weeks of time lost from work, nearly five times the median across all serious claims, according to Safe Work Australia’s Key Work Health and Safety Statistics 2025.
- Workforce shortages remain significant: baseline national projections indicate an undersupply of 70,707 full-time-equivalent nurses by 2035, according to the Department of Health and Aged Care’s Nursing Supply and Demand Study 2023–2035 (2024).
Talk to us about practical wellbeing support for your healthcare workforce.
Services most relevant to healthcare teams
HSG’s healthcare work focuses on the support that helps demanding, people-facing teams stay well. Organisations can begin with one priority area or combine services into a broader program:
Workplace mental health & resilience
Support employees in managing pressure, building resilience, and strengthening psychological safety.
Leadership development & manager capability
Equip managers with practical skills to lead people, navigate difficult conversations and support healthy team performance across onsite, remote and hybrid teams.
Physical wellbeing, ergonomics & corporate massage
Help reduce daily physical strain through ergonomics, movement, corporate massage, fitness, yoga and broader corporate health programs.
Workplace culture, connection & team engagement
Strengthen communication, belonging, and collaboration across on-site, hybrid, and distributed teams.
Ready to build an ongoing program across these areas? Workplace wellness programs
Trusted by 1,600+ organisations across Australia and Asia-Pacific
Supporting corporate, government, healthcare, education and not-for-profit sectors
HSG has supported more than 1,600 organisations across corporate, government, healthcare, education and not-for-profit sectors, including Microsoft, Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, BHP, the Department of Defence, St Vincent’s, the University of Sydney, Deakin University, The Smith Family and headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation.
Featured client story: St Vincent’s
Challenge: building resilience across both leaders and general staff in a demanding healthcare environment, with training matched to real needs.
Program: resilience sessions tailored for leaders and for general staff, scoped with the organisation and delivered onsite.
Outcome, in the client’s words:
We partnered with Holistic Services Group to deliver resilience sessions tailored for both our leaders and general staff. Mae worked closely with us to identify the training that best suited our needs, and Dana facilitated the sessions on-site with professionalism and expertise. Both Mae and Dana were knowledgeable, engaging, and a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend Holistic Services Group for their exceptional team and comprehensive range of topics.
Peter J
St Vincent’s
What healthcare teams say
I really enjoyed the session. Rod was very clearly spoken, demonstrated the moves well and explained about the flow which I found very interesting. Highly recommend.
Melissa Tenho
CBHS Health Fund Limited
I have had verbal and written feedback from people who received a massage from Simon saying the massages were wonderful.
Michelle Pedrotti
Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group
Why healthcare organisations choose HSG
Holistic Services Group has delivered workplace wellbeing since 2003 and is trusted by more than 1,600 organisations, including St Vincent’s, the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Boston Scientific, BreastScreen Victoria, the Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group, CBHS Health Fund, headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Programs are delivered by specialist facilitators who each hold professional credentials in their discipline, onsite across every Australian capital and online nationwide, and can be scheduled around clinical rosters.
How it works
Simple, structured delivery from brief to program rollout
1. Tell us what you are trying to achieve
Share your goals, team size, timing and location. You do not need a finished brief.
2. Receive a tailored recommendation
HSG suggests suitable services, delivery formats and program options.
3. We coordinate the delivery
HSG matches the right specialist facilitator and manages the practical details with your team.
Workplace wellbeing trends in the healthcare sector
Healthcare wellbeing is moving toward structured, ongoing programs that respect rostered work and support both clinical and non-clinical staff. Four themes are shaping that shift:
- Burnout and workforce shortages dominate: sustained demand, short staffing and the emotional weight of caring work have made wellbeing a workforce sustainability and retention issue across hospitals, community health and aged care.
- Psychological safety is essential: the ability to speak up matters for both staff wellbeing and safe patient care, placing particular responsibility on the clinical leaders and managers who shape everyday team culture.
- Psychosocial obligations apply: high job demands and exposure to traumatic events or materials are recognised psychosocial hazards that must be eliminated or minimised through practical controls, including work design, systems of work and support, according to Safe Work Australia’s Model Code of Practice: Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work (2022).
- Manager capability is under pressure: global manager engagement fell from 27% to 22% between 2024 and 2025, the steepest year-on-year decline on record, reinforcing the need to equip healthcare leaders to support staff, communicate clearly and sustain healthy team environments, according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 report.
Talk to us about practical wellbeing support for your healthcare workforce.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. HSG regularly schedules sessions around clinical rosters and shift patterns, including early, late, or repeated sessions, and can deliver them online when gathering staff together is difficult.
Yes. HSG’s programs suit clinical teams, support and administrative staff, and leaders, and can be tailored to the different pressures each group faces.
Yes, they are complementary. An EAP is reactive support, while HSG’s programs are proactive, building resilience, psychological safety and physical wellbeing, and help meet psychosocial risk obligations (Safe Work Australia).
Yes. HSG tailors content, format and schedule to your service, from a single resilience session to an ongoing program across mental and physical wellbeing.
HSG can report on attendance, participation and staff feedback after delivery. Over time, our experience shows that well-designed programs can support engagement, retention, psychological safety and healthier responses to sustained workplace pressure. Outcomes are often strongest when support is coordinated over time and tailored to the realities of clinical and non-clinical teams.
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