Support worker jobs in North Yorkshire

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled community support and outreach posts in North Yorkshire in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in North Yorkshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.3% of the 18,000 filled adult social care posts in North Yorkshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in North Yorkshire ran at 17.9%. New starters were 20% of community support and outreach posts in North Yorkshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, North Yorkshire ranks 10th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 275 filled community support and outreach posts, against 225 in North Yorkshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the North Yorkshire workforce, the same release records 9,600 filled care worker posts, 1,000 filled senior care worker posts and 275 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in North Yorkshire was £12.53 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in North Yorkshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in North Yorkshire earn a median of £34,785 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in North Yorkshire at £26,300, £8,485 below it.