Is your time flexible? Do you love variety? Join Pathways as a casual support worker and help people with mental illness to live their dreams
We’re looking for passionate, reliable, and caring individuals to join us as Casual Support Workers across all Pathways services. Our casual roles cover leave for permanent Support Workers in Nelson, providing you with the opportunity to gain valuable experience across a range of our services. As a casual, the hours of work are not regular and are offered when they become available, so if you’re looking for a role with flexibility then we’d love to hear from you.
You’ll be expected to work all shifts as required. AM: 7am – 3.30pm, PM: 3.00pm-11.30pm and Awake Night shifts 11.00pm -7.30am.
As a Casual Support Worker, you’ll play a vital role in supporting tāngata whai ora in their recovery journey, ensuring safety, wellbeing, and meaningful engagement. This role will always have variety, and it could include things like:
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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.
If you enjoy making a difference and thrive in a supportive environment, this is your chance!
Position description: https://www.wisegroup.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PW-Support-Worker.pdf
Closing Date | Rā Katinga: 10 November 2026. Please note, this advert may close sooner if the roles are filled.
Contact: Vanessa Kingsbury, Team Coach at Vanessa.Kingsbury@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.
