Support worker jobs in Derbyshire

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled community support and outreach posts in Derbyshire in 2024/25, out of 425 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 50 of those community support and outreach posts in Derbyshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 15.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Derbyshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.6% of the 23,500 filled adult social care posts in Derbyshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Derbyshire ran at 16.6%. New starters were 19% of community support and outreach posts in Derbyshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Derbyshire ranks 5th of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 337.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 375 in Derbyshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Derbyshire workforce, the same release records 12,500 filled care worker posts, 1,400 filled senior care worker posts and 650 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Derbyshire was £12.07 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Derbyshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Derbyshire earn a median of £36,011 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Derbyshire at £25,500, £10,511 below it.