Support worker jobs in Westmorland and Furness

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in Westmorland and Furness in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Westmorland and Furness were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 16.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Westmorland and Furness.

The community support and outreach role is 2.9% of the 6,800 filled adult social care posts in Westmorland and Furness. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Westmorland and Furness ran at 25.3%. New starters were 25.6% of community support and outreach posts in Westmorland and Furness over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Westmorland and Furness ranks 16th 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 200 in Westmorland and Furness. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Westmorland and Furness workforce, the same release records 3,100 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Westmorland and Furness was £12.25 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Westmorland and Furness only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Westmorland and Furness earn a median of £40,529 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Westmorland and Furness at £26,100, £14,429 below it.