Support worker jobs in South Gloucestershire

Skills for Care recorded 250 filled community support and outreach posts in South Gloucestershire in 2024/25, out of 250 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in South Gloucestershire.

The community support and outreach role is 2.7% of the 9,300 filled adult social care posts in South Gloucestershire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in South Gloucestershire ran at 11.5%. New starters were 18.3% of community support and outreach posts in South Gloucestershire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, South Gloucestershire ranks 8th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 287.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 250 in South Gloucestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the South Gloucestershire workforce, the same release records 4,700 filled care worker posts, 425 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in South Gloucestershire was £12.84 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in South Gloucestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in South Gloucestershire earn a median of £42,267 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in South Gloucestershire at £26,400, £15,867 below it.