Support worker jobs in Staffordshire

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled community support and outreach posts in Staffordshire in 2024/25, out of 375 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Staffordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.1% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Staffordshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.5% of the 23,000 filled adult social care posts in Staffordshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Staffordshire ran at 13.8%. New starters were 15.1% of community support and outreach posts in Staffordshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Staffordshire ranks 3rd of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 212.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 350 in Staffordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Staffordshire workforce, the same release records 12,500 filled care worker posts, 1,300 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Staffordshire was £12.23 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Staffordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Staffordshire earn a median of £34,532 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Staffordshire at £24,900, £9,632 below it.