Here is an opportunity to work in the mental health and addiction sector while enjoying the flexibility of casual employment.
Pathways is a leading national provider of community-based mental health, addiction, and wellbeing services in Aotearoa. We’re all about transforming mental health and addictions through our Pathways (adult) and Real (youth) services. In fact, we’ve been doing it for 30 years, supporting around 6,000 people each year.
Reporting to the Team Coach, our casual roles provide cover for permanent Support Workers and Youth Workers - the hours of work are not regular and are offered when they become available. We operate 7 days a week.
In this role you will:
This is a casual role where the shift pattern can be as follows:
Closing Date | Rā Katinga: 13 November 2026. Please note, this job may close early if a suitable candidate is found.
Position Description: Please copy and paste the following link in your browser: https://www.wisegroup.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PW-Support-Worker.pdf
Contact | Whakapā: Vika Puliuvea, Team Coach, Vika.Puliuvea@pathways.co.nz
For further information, visit 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.
