Support worker jobs in Gloucestershire

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled community support and outreach posts in Gloucestershire in 2024/25, out of 350 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Gloucestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Gloucestershire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.6% of the 20,500 filled adult social care posts in Gloucestershire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Gloucestershire ran at 17.3%. New starters were 21.3% of community support and outreach posts in Gloucestershire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Gloucestershire ranks 7th 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 325 in Gloucestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Gloucestershire workforce, the same release records 12,000 filled care worker posts, 1,300 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Gloucestershire was £12.36 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Gloucestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Gloucestershire earn a median of £37,598 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Gloucestershire at £25,700, £11,898 below it.