Support worker jobs in Wokingham

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled community support and outreach posts in Wokingham in 2024/25, out of 150 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Wokingham were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Wokingham.

The community support and outreach role is 2.9% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Wokingham. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Wokingham ran at 18.4%. New starters were 23.7% of community support and outreach posts in Wokingham over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Wokingham ranks 14th 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 150 in Wokingham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Wokingham workforce, the same release records 2,800 filled care worker posts, 250 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Wokingham was £11.94 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wokingham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wokingham earn a median of £46,574 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wokingham at £26,200, £20,374 below it.