Support worker jobs in Nottinghamshire

Skills for Care recorded 950 filled community support and outreach posts in Nottinghamshire in 2024/25, out of 1,100 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 100 of those community support and outreach posts in Nottinghamshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Nottinghamshire.

The community support and outreach role is 3.5% of the 27,000 filled adult social care posts in Nottinghamshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Nottinghamshire ran at 16.6%. New starters were 24.8% of community support and outreach posts in Nottinghamshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Nottinghamshire ranks 1st of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 337.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 950 in Nottinghamshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Nottinghamshire workforce, the same release records 14,500 filled care worker posts, 1,400 filled senior care worker posts and 350 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Nottinghamshire was £12.13 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Nottinghamshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Nottinghamshire earn a median of £33,751 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Nottinghamshire at £25,000, £8,751 below it.