Support worker jobs in Rotherham

Skills for Care recorded 425 filled community support and outreach posts in Rotherham in 2024/25, out of 450 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Rotherham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Rotherham.

The community support and outreach role is 5.4% of the 7,900 filled adult social care posts in Rotherham. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Rotherham ran at 10.6%. New starters were 13% of community support and outreach posts in Rotherham over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Rotherham ranks 3rd 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 425 in Rotherham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Rotherham workforce, the same release records 4,600 filled care worker posts, 375 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Rotherham was £12.11 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 Rotherham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Rotherham earn a median of £33,419 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Rotherham at £25,100, £8,319 below it.