Support worker jobs in Wandsworth

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in Wandsworth in 2024/25, out of 125 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Wandsworth.

The community support and outreach role is 2.2% of the 5,700 filled adult social care posts in Wandsworth. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Wandsworth ran at 11.9%. New starters were 16.9% of community support and outreach posts in Wandsworth over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Wandsworth ranks 27th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 125 in Wandsworth. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Wandsworth workforce, the same release records 2,900 filled care worker posts, 200 filled senior care worker posts and 175 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Wandsworth was £12.85 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 Wandsworth only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wandsworth earn a median of £43,035 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wandsworth at £29,000, £14,035 below it.