Two simple models based on the Coulomb-distorted phase function and supersymmetry-inspired factorisation methods are adapted to deal with the nucleon–light nuclei elastic scattering at low energies. The first one is associated with the derivation of a closed-form expression of the scattering phase shift for motionin Coulomb-distorted separable non-local potentials. The second one deals with the development of an energy dependent phase equivalent local potential to the non-local one for s-wave and its subsequent generation of higher partial wave interactions through the formalism of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The usefulness of our models is demonstrated through the computation of α–nucleon scattering phase shifts at low energies up to partialwaves $\ell$ = 2. Certain energy-dependent correction factors are also incorporated into energy-dependent higher partial wave potentials to achieve an excellent agreement with the standard data.