Support worker jobs in West Sussex

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled community support and outreach posts in West Sussex in 2024/25, out of 375 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in West Sussex.

The community support and outreach role is 1.4% of the 24,500 filled adult social care posts in West Sussex. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in West Sussex ran at 13.7%. New starters were 17.9% of community support and outreach posts in West Sussex over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, West Sussex ranks 7th 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 350 in West Sussex. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the West Sussex workforce, the same release records 13,000 filled care worker posts, 1,600 filled senior care worker posts and 300 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in West Sussex was £12.88 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in West Sussex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in West Sussex earn a median of £37,916 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in West Sussex at £26,000, £11,916 below it.