Support worker jobs in Northumberland

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Northumberland in 2024/25, out of 200 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Northumberland.

The community support and outreach role is 1.8% of the 9,500 filled adult social care posts in Northumberland. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Northumberland ran at 17.5%. New starters were 22% of community support and outreach posts in Northumberland over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Northumberland ranks 6th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 162.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 175 in Northumberland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Northumberland workforce, the same release records 4,800 filled care worker posts, 650 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Northumberland was £12.69 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Northumberland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Northumberland earn a median of £35,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Northumberland at £25,900, £9,423 below it.