LifeSkills Worker – North East based
Service: LifeSkills Open
Salary: £14.52 per hour
Location: North East, covering areas including Stockton, Richmond and Darlington.
Hours: Sessional hours
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Sessional contract
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the LifeSkills Open team and help support the delivery of LifeSkills in the North East at Family Action (face to face, with some potential for online sessions).
Main Responsibilities:
• To deliver blocks of LifeSkills sessions to groups of participants in settings in the North East of England.
• To participate at promotional events alongside other local community services.
• To support with collecting data (e.g. bookings, attendance and feedback) for your sessions.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Sessional worker applicants should have experience of delivering training or facilitating groups (e.g.to support people to access employment, engage in volunteering, develop their confidence and wellbeing), face-to-face and/or online.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Benefits:
- Up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
• Click the ‘Apply’ link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Tuesday 6th January 2026 at 11.59pm
Interviews are scheduled to take place from 5th January 2026 virtually, with slots throughout the working day and early/late slots available.
For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: Emily.phelps-jones@family-action.org.uk
All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action because we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.
All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
