Life Skills Officer

**Salary**

£29,093 PLUS Local Agreement Allowance of 6.5% of Salary

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Full time

**Hours**

Full Time, Permanent

**Job category/type**

Children's Services

**Date posted**

11/08/2025

**Job reference**

NELC400000269

**Accommodation that feels like a home**

**Teams that feel like families**

**We have an unwavering commitment to Children in our Care. You will be**taking a lead role in ensuring our Supported Accommodation are providing the best outcomes for our children ensuring they receive stability, care and love.**

**You will be joining a service on a relentless**journey with collaboration**at the forefront of our provision. Working with colleagues across our Children's Services and community partners, we continue to develop networks of support, stability and unlimited potential for our young people.**

**Join us in making a lasting impact for our children, our future.**

Life Skills Officer in Supported Accommodation

As a Life Skills Officer, you will play a vital role in **ensuring the safety, well-being, and personal development** of children in our care. You will provide compassionate, **individualised support**, creating a **nurturing and stable home environment** where they feel valued and empowered.

Working in partnership with each young person and their **Personal Advisor**, you’ll help them develop essential **independence skills**, guiding them toward successful, fulfilling lives within their own homes and communities.

We’re looking for someone who blends emotional warmth with sharp instincts and structure. You’ll walk alongside young people as they learn how to budget, cook, make decisions, and build their future—with you cheering them on every step of the way.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Supporting young people to develop vital independent living skills
- Building relationships that offer emotional safety and trust
- Helping young people engage with education, employment, or training (EET)
- Delivering structured, creative life skills sessions tailored to individual needs
- **The nature of this role means that you will work on a rota basis covering evenings and weekends routinely -with working patterns covering 09:30am - 20:00pm.**

**If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact and shape the future of young people who need it most,**we’d love to hear from you**

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**We aim to interview 28/29 August 2025**

**As part of your RewardNEL package**, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.

You will also have access to our **exclusive** **RewardNEL** platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.

NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.
- **At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)**:

- **References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position**

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