Perinatal Mental Health Support Worker (AWAKE)
- Do you enjoy supporting parents and young babies to make a positive difference in their wellbeing?
- Do you have skills in parent craft and caring for young infants?
- Do you have an understanding of perinatal mental health?
We are seeking an experienced Mental Health Support Worker to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service. This is a meaningful opportunity to support parents and their young babies, using your knowledge and skills to promote wellbeing, rest, bonding, and recovery.
WALSH Trust is a well‑established and respected, award‑winning provider of community mental health services. Our Perinatal Mental Health Service is based in West Auckland and supports the communities covered by the Waitākere and Auckland District Health Boards, providing packages of care and respite services to parents and their babies.
This role requires you to work awake night shifts from 11:00pm to 7:30am on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, supporting people who are pregnant and/or up to one year postpartum and experiencing mental distress. Night shifts can be busy and varied, with a strong focus on enabling parents to rest and providing attentive care to young babies while parents sleep.
We are looking for someone with resilience, flexibility, and a strong knowledge base or experience in Perinatal Mental Health, including early parent–child bonding and parent craft. You will be self‑motivated, able to build supportive relationships, and passionate about delivering respite‑based approaches to mental health, including WRAP, the Strengths Model, and the Recovery Approach. You will also demonstrate sound knowledge of community resources that may enhance perinatal service user and family/whānau care.
We can offer you:
- A positive, dynamic and stimulating working environment.
- Excellent training and development opportunities, including professional external supervision.
- A competitive remuneration package.
Our aim is to employ people who value:
- Positive and respectful workplace relationships and contributing to quality improvements.
- Working to make a positive difference.
- Cooperation and consultation.
- Reflective practice and constructive feedback.
Can you offer us:
- Experience working within the mental health field.
- An understanding of the needs of parents and young babies, including bonding and parent craft.
- An understanding and appreciation of collaborative planning using Strengths and Recovery‑Based practice.
- The National Certificate in Mental Health & Addictions or another relevant health‑related qualification.
- A positive, mature attitude with a commitment to professional and personal development.
- The ability to work independently in the community as well as collaboratively within a team.
- The ability to deliver support services fairly, effectively, impartially and courteously to people and their families/whānau.
- The ability to work with diverse cultures and form therapeutic alliances with perinatal tangata whaiora/service users and their whānau.
- A full, current, clean NZ driver licence.
If you are seeking a rewarding role at the cutting edge of mental health service delivery and wish to contribute to our vision of Healthy Lives Shaping Healthy Communities, please submit your CV and covering letter online. For further information about WALSH Trust, please visit www.walsh.org.
Applicants for this position must have the right to work in New Zealand.
Closing Date: 2 March 2026
Skills & Experience
- Experience working within the mental health field.
- An understanding of the needs of parents and young babies, including bonding and parent craft.
- An understanding and appreciation of collaborative planning using Strengths and Recovery‑Based practice.
- The National Certificate in Mental Health & Addictions or another relevant health‑related qualification.
- A positive, mature attitude with a commitment to professional and personal development.
- The ability to work independently in the community as well as collaboratively within a team.
- The ability to deliver support services fairly, effectively, impartially and courteously to people and their families/whānau.
- The ability to work with diverse cultures and form therapeutic alliances with perinatal tangata whaiora/service users and their whānau.
- A full, current, clean NZ driver licence.
Applications for this role will take you to the advertisers site.
