Permanent Part-Time Role | 25 hours per week
Love working with rangatahi? Join a fun, supportive team where you’ll build genuine relationships and make a lasting difference every day.
This is an opportunity to be part of a close-knit team that values collaboration, clinical excellence, humour, and supporting one another. You’ll enjoy meaningful community-based work, small caseloads, flexible hours, and the chance to walk alongside rangatahi as they navigate recovery.
Mō Te Tūranga | About The role
Our Youth Mobile team supports rangatahi aged 14–24 experiencing significant mental distress, working alongside Specialist Mental Health Services to provide brief, intensive, recovery-focused clinical support.
This isn’t a desk job. It’s varied, rewarding mahi where every day is different. You’ll spend your time building genuine relationships with rangatahi and their whānau, working alongside schools, community agencies and health professionals to help young people achieve their goals and move toward recovery.
Your role will include:
- Providing tangata centered, strengths based intervention and recovery planning.
- Supporting rangatahi through regular community visits.
- Developing safety plans and therapeutic goals.
- Working collaboratively with whānau, schools, community supports and multidisciplinary teams.
- Maintaining quality clinical documentation and case notes.
- Contributing to a positive, supportive team culture.
Why You’ll Love Working with Us
We’re proud of the culture we’ve created.
Our team is supportive, approachable and genuinely enjoys working together. We believe great clinical work happens when clinicians feel valued, connected and well supported.
This role also offers:
- Flexible work arrangements across 3–4 days per week.
- Small caseloads that allow you to focus on quality clinical care.
- Excellent work-life balance.
- A collaborative team that enjoys celebrating successes together.
- Ongoing clinical supervision and professional development.
Whether you’re returning to the workforce, balancing private practice, or simply looking for a role that fits around family commitments, we’d love to hear from you.
Mōu | About you
We’re looking for someone who enjoys working alongside rangatahi, thrives in a collaborative team environment, and wants to make a genuine difference in the lives of young people experiencing mental distress.
Must Have:
- Full registration as a Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, or full membership with NZAC or NZCCA. Counsellors will either hold Te Whatu Ora accreditation or be willing to obtain it.
- Minimum three years’ experience supporting rangatahi experiencing mental distress.
- Strong clinical assessment, engagement and safety planning skills.
- Experience working collaboratively with whānau, community services and multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent written documentation and communication skills.
- Alignment with SST’s values and commitment to recovery-focused practice.
- Legal right to work in New Zealand.
- Full, clean New Zealand Driver Licence.
Desirable:
- Postgraduate study in mental health or youth wellbeing.
- Experience working across youth, whānau and community mental health settings.
- Knowledge of youth development and recovery-based practice.
- Experience using electronic clinical record systems.
Tā mātou mahi | We offer
- A genuinely supportive and fun team culture.
- Flexible work arrangements that promote work-life balance.
- Small caseloads with time to focus on quality clinical work.
- Regular professional supervision.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
- Paid sick leave from commencement (eligibility criteria apply).
- Paid birthday leave after six months’ permanent employment.
- The opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of rangatahi every day.
Mō mātou | About us
At Stepping Stone Trust, we support more than 700 people each week across Canterbury and Otago through a range of community and residential mental health services.
We’re committed to providing compassionate, recovery-focused support while creating a workplace where our people feel valued, supported and empowered to do their best work.
How to Apply:
If you’re looking for meaningful clinical work within a supportive team that values flexibility, connection and professional growth, we’d love to hear from you.
Click Apply Now to submit your CV and cover letter through our online recruitment system.
Applications will be reviewed as they’re received, and interviews may take place before the closing date.
** Our organisation has a strong commitment to safeguarding vulnerable people; and any employees will be vetted to a level appropriate to the role for which they have applied.
