Support worker jobs in Brighton and Hove

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in Brighton and Hove in 2024/25, out of 125 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Brighton and Hove.

The community support and outreach role is 1.7% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Brighton and Hove. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Brighton and Hove ran at 20.8%. New starters were 16.3% of community support and outreach posts in Brighton and Hove over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Brighton and Hove ranks 15th 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 125 in Brighton and Hove. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Brighton and Hove workforce, the same release records 3,700 filled care worker posts, 325 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Brighton and Hove was £12.82 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Brighton and Hove only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Brighton and Hove earn a median of £39,137 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Brighton and Hove at £26,300, £12,837 below it.