Support people on their mental health journey by building life skills, fostering independence, and creating meaningful connections in your community
We're looking for compassionate and motivated Casual Support Workers to join our Blenheim team. Whether you're available for mornings, evenings, weekends or awake night shifts, you'll play an important role in supporting people on their mental health and wellbeing journey.
At Pathways, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live a full and meaningful life. As a Support Worker, you'll walk alongside tāngata whai ora, helping them build confidence, develop everyday living skills, and stay connected to their communities.
Along with flexible work and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, you'll enjoy:
No two shifts look the same. One day you might be supporting someone with grocery shopping, budgeting, cooking or gardening. Another day could involve helping someone attend appointments, reconnect with their community, or work towards personal goals.
Whatever the task, you'll bring encouragement, understanding, and a genuine desire to help people thrive.
Our approach is grounded in recovery-focused, trauma-informed and evidence-based practice. You'll be supported to bring these values to life every day while promoting hope, independence and wellbeing.
You might be working any of the shifts, on any day or night of the week, and you could be working in the residential and acute service, or our mobile service – it all depends on our need at the time.
You genuinely enjoy supporting people and have a natural ability to build trust and connection. You're respectful, positive, and committed to upholding the mana of the people you work alongside.
You'll also have:
As a leading mental health and addiction service in Aotearoa, we empower individuals to live full lives in their communities. Prioritising mental health while aiming for overall well-being, we foster strong whānau connections. Our commitment to personalised support is reflected in our 'whatever it takes' wairua and spirit.
Position description: https://www.wisegroup.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PW-Support-Worker.pdf
Closing Date | Rā Katinga: 14 September 2026. We will be shortlisting and interviewing while the advert is open. Please note, this advert may close sooner than the listed closing date.
Contact: Ruth Hamilton, Team Coach on 027 202 2103 or at ruth.hamilton@pathways.co.nz if you have any questions.
For further information, visit our website www.pathways.co.nz
Pathways is committed to healthy lifestyles and actively supports a smoke free environment. We encourage people with lived experience of mental illness & addictions to apply.
At the Wise Group we believe in creating new opportunities for the wellbeing of people, vulnerable populations, organisations, and communities.
We operate in New Zealand's mental health and addictions sector, are one of the largest non government providers in the sector
From humble beginnings over 35 years ago, today we employ over 1,500 staff throughout the country, working in areas from frontline service to software development. We have a parent and subsidiary structure encompassing a family of charitable entities, all linked by a common dream. Our structure nurtures synergy and innovation, and means we’re transparent and accountable.
Our whānau includes:
• Wise Management Services
• Pathways
• Real
• Te Pou
• Le Va
• Workwise
• Wild Bamboo
• LinkPeople
• The People's Project
• Housing First Auckland
Here's what drives us:
Each year our Group works with thousands of New Zealanders and their families. We provide people with a broad range of community-based mental health and wellness services. In doing so we dramatically reduce their need for high-cost hospital and acute services and help people have happier, more fulfilling and more productive lives.
Each year the Group's housing services help people find and live in affordable homes, also helping them appreciate the rights and responsibilities of being tenants and managing homes.
Each year the Group's employment agency helps people who experience a serious mental health condition get off benefits, become financially independent and reclaim their self-esteem by finding and retaining paid jobs.
Each year people throughout the country attend professional development programmes through the Group's NZQA certified training organisation.
Each year thousands of mental health professionals in the public and private sector are supported and developed via the Group's national workforce development organisation.
Together we make a real difference by creating connections to support people to find and live their dreams.
