Life Skills Officer - Supported Accommodation

Life Skills Officer – Supported Accommodation

Job description

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 09:00am – 17:00pm pm – 20:00pm One weekend in four.

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!

For more information, please refer to the role profile You can also email Chris Dale- Deputy Service Lead for an informal discussion about the role.

Key Dates

We aim to interview candidates w/c 02 March

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.

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.

In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:

• 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)
• You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses)
• 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

Please note: This role requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at a level appropriate to the post. It is a contractual and essential requirement that the successful candidate is registered with the DBS Update Service. You have 30 calendar days from the \”date of issue\” printed on your standard or enhanced DBS certificate to register for the DBS Update Service using the certificate number.

Do you need support?

If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.

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