Support worker jobs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Skills for Care recorded 400 filled community support and outreach posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2024/25, out of 450 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 50 of those community support and outreach posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

The community support and outreach role is 3.1% of the 13,000 filled adult social care posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ran at 13.8%. New starters were 13.4% of community support and outreach posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 4th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 287.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 400 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole workforce, the same release records 7,300 filled care worker posts, 750 filled senior care worker posts and 200 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole was £14.02 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £27,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole earn a median of £37,241 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at £25,700, £11,541 below it.