Support worker jobs in Tameside

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled community support and outreach posts in Tameside in 2024/25, out of 175 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 6.1% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Tameside.

The community support and outreach role is 2.9% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Tameside. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Tameside ran at 12.4%. New starters were 16% of community support and outreach posts in Tameside over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Tameside ranks 19th 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 150 in Tameside. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Tameside workforce, the same release records 2,900 filled care worker posts, 225 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Tameside was £12.58 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Tameside only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Tameside earn a median of £30,734 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Tameside at £26,100, £4,634 below it.