Support worker jobs in Hertfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 1,000 filled community support and outreach posts in Hertfordshire in 2024/25, out of 1,000 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Hertfordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Hertfordshire.

The community support and outreach role is 2.9% of the 34,000 filled adult social care posts in Hertfordshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Hertfordshire ran at 16.8%. New starters were 20.4% of community support and outreach posts in Hertfordshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Hertfordshire ranks 1st of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 1,000 in Hertfordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Hertfordshire workforce, the same release records 19,000 filled care worker posts, 1,600 filled senior care worker posts and 325 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Hertfordshire was £13.74 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hertfordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hertfordshire earn a median of £42,775 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hertfordshire at £25,900, £16,875 below it.