Senior Peer Support Specialist

Wise Group; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 39,000 - 72,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Co-Learning sessions

KiwiSaver boost

Fifth week leave

Wellbeing days

HealthNow card

Job summary

Pathways in Central Auckland is launching a new peer-led acute mental health service. We are seeking an inspiring Senior Peer Support Specialist to provide leadership, coaching, and mentorship within our peer team.

You will oversee shifts, model peer values, support Peer Support Specialists to grow, and promote recovery, wellbeing, and continuous improvement in a rights-based care environment. This is a permanent part-time role with a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Lived experience of mental illness and addictions.
• Completed Level 4 certificate in Health and Wellbeing or equivalent, or intent to commence training within three months.
• Able to speak to your lived and living experience and journey to wellbeing.
• Knowledge of, and commitment to, Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire and support others while ensuring practice reflects peer values and principles.
• Oversee running of shifts, role model core peer values, and support Peer Support Specialists to grow.
• Foster a culture of recovery, wellbeing, continuous improvement and innovation while ensuring high-quality peer support practice.
• Provide authentic leadership, coaching and mentoring to empower kaimahi to achieve their personal best.

Skills

Leadership

Peer support experience

Mentoring

Communication skills

Te Tiriti o Waitangi knowledge

Education

Level 4 Health & Wellbeing certificate

Job description

• 2 x part-time, permanent roles available + Central Auckland location
• Senior role ina new service based on an internationally renowned peer crisis care model

Draw on your lived experience toinspire, support, and mentor others in a senior peer support specialist rolewithin a new acute mental health service.

Kia ora, Tālofa lava, Mālō e lelei, Bula Vinaka,Fakalofa lahi atu, Kia Orana, Sastrikal, Namaste, Salam and warm Pacificgreetings to you.

“Ehara i te mea ko te haerenga, ko te taenga atu rāneite kaupapa. Ko te whanaungatanga kē! It's not the journey or thedestination its the company you keep”.

Pathways | Mō mātou

As a leading mental health and addiction service in Aotearoa, we believein the power of lived experience and the impact of the peer workforce. We havewell established and effective peer workforce infrastructure which supports youin your mahi. Our collective mahi is to empower individuals to live full livesin their communities. We foster strong whānau connections.

TheService

We arebuilding an exciting, new peer-led community-based acute alternative tohospital within the Central Auckland Te Toka Tumai region. This is anopportunity for you to step into an exciting Senior Peer Specialist role.The service will be staffed by lived and living experience kaimahiwho are trained to deliver inspiring peer services alongside other clinicalkaimahi. 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 inpartnership with other mental health and addiction providers and will beinformed by a rights and values-based approach to care. You’ll be reporting toa Team Coach and working with the support of your wider team.

• Access to monthly Co-Learning (Peer Supervision sessions) and coaching
• Increased Employer Kiwisaver contribution
• Fifth Week of Annual Leave after 1 year
• Paid Wellbeing Days (2 days a year)
• HealthNow Payment Card - $250 per year to support Health and Wellbeing for you and your whanau

We need an inspiring Senior Peer Support Specialist to provideleadership, coaching, and support within our peer team. Drawing on yourknowledge of the core peer competencies and peer values, you will oversee therunning of shifts, role model core peer values, and support Peer SupportSpecialists to grow and reach their full potential.

You will foster a culture of recovery, wellbeing, continuous improvementand innovation, while ensuring high-quality peer support practice. Throughauthentic leadership, coaching, and mentoring, you will empower kaimahi toachieve their personal best and provide meaningful support to the people weserve.

We have 2 permanent part-time positions available based in CentralAuckland;

• Saturday & Sunday, 7am – 3:30pm
• Friday & Saturday, 3pm – 11:30pm

You | Mōu:

We are seeking experienced peers who can lead, inspire and supportothers while ensuring practice reflects peer values and principles.As well as having great leadership and peopleskills, you will have a demonstrated ability to work well with other servicessuch as Te Whatu Ora, PHOs and the wider community sector. You will thrive onthe challenge of helping to establish and grow a new team in an innovative newservice.

• A working knowledge of the peer workforcecompetencies and have completed recognised Peer Support training
• Completed Level 4 certificate in Health andWellbeing or equivalency or intention to commence trainingwithin three months
• Able to speak to your lived and livingexperience and journey to wellbeing
• Knowledge of, and demonstrable commitment to, the principles of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Applications Close: Friday, 13th November 2026.

Plesa note, that this role may closer early if a suitablecandidateisfound.

Position Description:

https://www.wisegroup.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/PW-Senior-Peer-Support-Specialist.pdf

Contact:

Melanie Govender, Service and RelationshipManager on [e-mail] for any further information.

For furtherinformation, visit our website www.pathways.co.nz

Pathways iscommitted to healthy lifestyles and actively supports a smoke free environment.We encourage people withlived and living experience of mental illness andaddictions to apply.