Support worker jobs in West Northamptonshire

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in West Northamptonshire in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in West Northamptonshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.7% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in West Northamptonshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in West Northamptonshire ran at 21.8%. New starters were 23.3% of community support and outreach posts in West Northamptonshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, West Northamptonshire ranks 9th of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 337.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 200 in West Northamptonshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the West Northamptonshire workforce, the same release records 6,800 filled care worker posts, 600 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in West Northamptonshire was £11.59 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £22,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in West Northamptonshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in West Northamptonshire earn a median of £38,313 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in West Northamptonshire at £24,800, £13,513 below it.