Support worker jobs in Kensington and Chelsea

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Kensington and Chelsea in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Kensington and Chelsea.

The community support and outreach role is 3.3% of the 3,000 filled adult social care posts in Kensington and Chelsea. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Kensington and Chelsea ran at 8.2%. New starters were 30.5% of community support and outreach posts in Kensington and Chelsea over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Kensington and Chelsea ranks 29th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 100 in Kensington and Chelsea. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Kensington and Chelsea workforce, the same release records 1,300 filled care worker posts, 75 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Kensington and Chelsea was £13.39 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kensington and Chelsea only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Kensington and Chelsea earn a median of £45,600 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kensington and Chelsea at £29,300, £16,300 below it.