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
• Ability to apply the Peer Support approach
• Understanding of recovery concepts, pathways, and values
• Personal lived experience of mental health or addiction
• Excellent verbal, written, and computer literacy skills
• Knowledge of the Treaty of Waitangi and its application to health
• A full, clean drivers license (essential)

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 coachoffering 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 YOULL 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