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Peer Support Worker – Crisis Recovery CafÉ
Looking for a challenging and extremely rewarding opportunity to use your lived experience of mental distress to walk alongside peers experiencing a range of social issues including mental distress and crisis challenges?
He kōrero mō mātou | About Us – Wellington City Mission’s Community Hub, Whakamaru, opened late 2024. We are open to the whole of Wellington and provide a variety of services. One of which is the Crisis Recovery Café led that is delivered through lived experience with a non-clinical approach at the fore front.
Our vision is “People and Communities empowered, transformed, experiencing fullness of life” – Our Values are Aroha, Tumanako, Manakitanga, and Whānaungatanga
As a Peer Support Worker, you will draw from your own lived experience to support peers/tangata whaiora and their whānau by building genuine, strengths-based relationships. You will guide individuals that present in crisis/mental health distress toward safer outcomes. Deescalate and settle individuals and provide individualised support and safety planning. The role is situated at Whakamaru, Mt Cook. Crisis Recovery Café will operate between Thursday and Sunday, between 2.30pm – 11pm. And be delivered by Peer Support Workers.
He kōrero mōu | About You – The persons we are looking will need:
- Personal experience of challenges with mental distress and can use this appropriately to support others
- Demonstrated ability to take control of your own wellbeing, with developed insights and personal awareness
- Understanding of Intentional Peer Support training (IPS) is beneficial
- Proven ability to work effectively with peers from diverse cultures and backgrounds, especially Māori and Pasifika communities and their whānau.
- Enjoy working alongside and supporting people.
- Be positive and encouraging, with a good sense of humour.
- Willingness to undertake training.
- Take active responsibility for maintaining your own holistic wellbeing.
- Provide a living example of hope, resilience and wellbeing.
- Be a critical and reflective thinker.
- Have effective time management skills and the ability to manage competing demands and deadlines.
- Possess a genuine passion for making a positive difference.
How to apply
We would love to hear from you if you’re looking for the next step in your career. Please submit a CV and covering letter outlining your motivation for applying and how you meet the requirements of the role to workwithus@wcm.org.nz with Peer Support in the subject line. Applications due on Monday, 28th July 2025.