Bring your lived experience and join a new service based on an internationally renowned peer crisis care model to support guests on their recovery journey
As a leading mental health and addiction service in Aotearoa, we believe in the power of lived experience and the impact of the peer workforce. We have a well established and effective peer workforce infrastructure which supports you in your mahi. Our collective mahi is to empower individuals to live full lives in their communities. We foster strong whānau connections.
We are building an exciting, new peer-led community-based acute alternative to hospital within the central Auckland Te Toka Tumai region. This is an opportunity for you to step into an exciting Peer Support Specialist role. You will be working alongside others with lived and living experience who are trained to deliver inspiring peer services alongside clinical kaimahi. As kaimahi you will use recovery tools, models, and practices to inspire resilience, hope, and wellbeing. The service will be delivered in partnership with other mental health and addiction providers and will be informed by a rights and values-based approach to care. You’ll be reporting to a Senior Peer Support Specialist and Team Coach while working with the support of your extensive team.
In this role, you will intentionally draw on your lived or living experience to support others on their recovery journey, using your peer support training while upholding peer values and competencies in all aspects of your practice. You will provide compassionate support to acute tāngata whai ora staying at at the service as a community-based alternative to hospital care, helping to create a safe, welcoming, and recovery-focused environment. You will also support all aspects of tāngata whai ora wellbeing, recovery, and self-determination throughout their stay.
These are permanent full-time roles, based in Auckland Central. You will be working night shift, 11pm – 7:30am.
We have a number of different shift patterns below to fill.
We would love to hear from peers who are at a stage in their wellbeing journey where they are ready to support others in theirs. Alongside your lived or living experience and strong interpersonal skills, you will have the ability to build meaningful relationships and work collaboratively with Te Whatu Ora, PHOs, and the wider community sector. You will be excited by the opportunity to join a new peer-led team that supports recovery, connection, and hope.
Closing Date: Thursday, 5th November. Please note, this role may close early if a suitable candidate is found.
Position Description | Ngā kōrero mō tēnei tūranga: https://www.wisegroup.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/PW-Peer-Support-Specialist.pdf
Contact: Melanie Govender, Service and Relationship Manager on melanie.govender@pathways.co.nz for any further information.
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.
