Draw on your lived experience to inspire, support, and mentor others in a senior peer support specialist role within a new acute mental health service based on a WHO-recognised peer support model.
Kia ora, Tālofa lava, Mālō e lelei, Bula Vinaka, Fakalofa lahi atu, Kia Orana, Sastrikal, Namaste, Salam and warm Pacific greetings to you.
“Ehara i te mea ko te haerenga, ko te taenga atu rānei te kaupapa. Ko te whanaungatanga kē! It's not the journey or the destination its the company you keep”.
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 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 Senior Peer Specialist role. The service will be staffed by lived and living experience kaimahi who are trained to deliver inspiring peer services alongside other clinical kaimahi. You will role model and support our kaimahi to 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 Team Coach and working with the support of your wider team.
We need an inspiring Senior Peer Support Specialist to provide leadership, coaching, and support within our peer team. Drawing on your knowledge of the core peer competencies and peer values, you will oversee the running of shifts, role model core peer values, and support Peer Support Specialists to grow and reach their full potential.
You will foster a culture of recovery, wellbeing, continuous improvement and innovation, while ensuring high-quality peer support practice. Through authentic leadership, coaching, and mentoring, you will empower kaimahi to achieve their personal best and provide meaningful support to the people we serve.
Sunday – Thursday, 7:00-3:30pm
Tuesday- Saturday, 3:00pm- 11:30pm
We are seeking experienced peers who can lead, inspire and support others while ensuring practice reflects peer values and principles.As well as having great leadership and people skills, you will have a demonstrated ability to work well with other services such as Te Whatu Ora, PHOs and the wider community sector. You will thrive on the challenge of helping to establish and grow a new team in an innovative new service.
Applications Close: Monday, 5th October 2026. Please note, that this role may closer early if a suitable candidate is found.
Position Description: https://www.wisegroup.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/PW-Senior-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 and living experience of mental illness and 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.
