Support worker jobs in Hampshire

Skills for Care recorded 1,000 filled community support and outreach posts in Hampshire in 2024/25, out of 1,100 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 75 of those community support and outreach posts in Hampshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Hampshire.

The community support and outreach role is 2.4% of the 41,000 filled adult social care posts in Hampshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Hampshire ran at 14.7%. New starters were 17.8% of community support and outreach posts in Hampshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Hampshire ranks 2nd of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 200 filled community support and outreach posts, against 1,000 in Hampshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Hampshire workforce, the same release records 21,500 filled care worker posts, 2,300 filled senior care worker posts and 275 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Hampshire was £13.76 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hampshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hampshire earn a median of £39,324 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hampshire at £25,700, £13,624 below it.