Support worker jobs in Sunderland

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled community support and outreach posts in Sunderland in 2024/25, out of 150 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Sunderland.

The community support and outreach role is 1.9% of the 7,700 filled adult social care posts in Sunderland. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Sunderland ran at 12%. New starters were 16.9% of community support and outreach posts in Sunderland over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Sunderland ranks 8th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 162.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 150 in Sunderland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Sunderland workforce, the same release records 4,000 filled care worker posts, 375 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Sunderland was £12.63 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sunderland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sunderland earn a median of £32,015 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sunderland at £25,700, £6,315 below it.