Support worker jobs in Salford

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in Salford in 2024/25, out of 200 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Salford.

The community support and outreach role is 3.3% of the 6,100 filled adult social care posts in Salford. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Salford ran at 19.4%. New starters were 25.5% of community support and outreach posts in Salford over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Salford ranks 15th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 200 in Salford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Salford workforce, the same release records 3,300 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 25 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Salford was £13.17 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Salford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Salford earn a median of £38,492 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Salford at £25,400, £13,092 below it.