Peer Support Specialist, Early Psychosis Specialist Mental Health Team

1 week ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Full time

**Fixed term until June 2026, Part time 0.6FTE**

**Remuneration as per PSA Allied Health MECA guidelines**

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

Are you passionate about using your personal journey through mental health or addiction to uplift and empower others? Do you believe in the power of hope, recovery, and shared experience? If so, we want you to join our dedicated team as a Peer Support Specialist.

**About the Role**:
As a Peer Support Specialist, you'll draw on your own lived experience to support tangata whaiora (people seeking wellness) in their recovery journeys. You'll act as a recovery coach—offering hope, building trust, and walking alongside peers in their pursuit of wellbeing. Working within a community-based multi-disciplinary team, you'll build strong, respectful relationships and help peers reconnect with themselves, their culture, and their communities.

This position is fixed term and based at 7 Springs Road, East Tamaki.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Provide 1:1 peer support based on mutual respect and shared experience
- Role model hope, recovery, and self-determination
- Support peers in building resilience and accessing community resources
- Collaborate with whaanau, community networks, and clinical teams
- Advocate for equity, self-determination, and culturally safe care
- Document peer interactions using recovery-oriented language
- Support or facilitate WRAP group or other EPIT group intervention

**To be successful in this position, you will have the following training, skills, and attributes**:

- Peer Support Specialist Certificate (CM Health approved), with level 4 Health & Wellbeing certificate (Peer Support)
- Completion of a Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) program or similar
- Understanding of recovery concepts, pathways, and values
- Personal lived experience of mental health or addiction
- Excellent verbal, written, and computer literacy skills
- A full, clean driver’s license (essential)

**Working at Health New Zealand**

**How to apply**

**Job Number: CMH202515202**

**Applications Close: 28 July 2025**
- Whakawhanaungatanga, Kind -Manaakitanga, Together -Kotahitanga, Excellent
- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today._

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