Support worker jobs in West Berkshire

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled community support and outreach posts in West Berkshire in 2024/25, out of 75 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 9.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in West Berkshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.4% of the 3,500 filled adult social care posts in West Berkshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in West Berkshire ran at 17%. New starters were 20.6% of community support and outreach posts in West Berkshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, West Berkshire ranks 19th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 200 filled community support and outreach posts, against 50 in West Berkshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the West Berkshire workforce, the same release records 1,900 filled care worker posts, 225 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in West Berkshire was £14.29 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £27,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in West Berkshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in West Berkshire earn a median of £42,135 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in West Berkshire at £26,400, £15,735 below it.