Support worker jobs in Buckinghamshire

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Buckinghamshire in 2024/25, out of 200 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Buckinghamshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.4% of the 12,500 filled adult social care posts in Buckinghamshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Buckinghamshire ran at 19.3%. New starters were 29% of community support and outreach posts in Buckinghamshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Buckinghamshire ranks 11th 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 175 in Buckinghamshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Buckinghamshire workforce, the same release records 7,500 filled care worker posts, 600 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Buckinghamshire was £13.83 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Buckinghamshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Buckinghamshire earn a median of £40,365 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Buckinghamshire at £26,200, £14,165 below it.