Use your clinical registration & leadership skills to support your team as they provide primary healthcare to tangata whaiora via GP practices
We’re looking for a health professional with experience working in primary health care sector and management experience to support a team as they provide primary healthcare to tangata whaiora via GP practices
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.
Te Tumu Waiora is part of access and choice across greater Christchurch providing mental health support through medical practices in primary care settings with health coaches and support workers.
In your capacity as the Team Coach and part of the Pathways regional leadership team, you’ll provide frontline management and support to a team of health coaches and support workers across a number of medical practices in greater Christchurch. You’ll motivate your team and encourage a strong sense of inclusion within Pathways, especially as your team collaborates without daily interaction.
You’ll also be able to develop and maintain strong relationships with GP practices and frontline managers from other partnering NGOs.
Ideally you will have a health professional background, and experience working as a frontline manager in a primary health context.
You’ll also:
This is a permanent full-time role, working Monday-Friday, 8.30am – 5.00pm, in Christchurch.
The ideal candidate will be a health professional with a current registration who has experience working in the mental health industry, ideally with management and leadership knowledge. This could be a Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or AOD with understanding of primary health sector an advantage, and the ability to build strong relationships with a number of stakeholders across primary health and NGO sector.
You will have;
Closing Date | Rā Katinga: 29 September 2026. Please note, this advert may close sooner if a suitable candidate is found prior to the closing date.
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Contact | Korero: Franziska Kerdemelidis, Service and Relationship Manager on 027 255 9429 for 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.
