Adult social care in North West
Support worker jobs in Cheshire West and Chester
Adult social care in Cheshire West and Chester employs people in 175 filled community support and outreach posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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What the official data says about Cheshire West and Chester
Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Cheshire West and Chester in 2024/25, out of 175 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Cheshire West and Chester were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Cheshire West and Chester.
The community support and outreach role is 1.8% of the 10,000 filled adult social care posts in Cheshire West and Chester. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Cheshire West and Chester, only 35.6% across all care roles in the area.
On filled community support and outreach posts, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 17th 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 175 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.
For the shape of the rest of the Cheshire West and Chester workforce, the same release records 5,200 filled care worker posts, 550 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.
Reported median pay in Cheshire West and Chester was £12.03 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cheshire West and Chester only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.
Skills for Care withholds a turnover rate for the community support and outreach role in Cheshire West and Chester: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.
Full-time workers in Cheshire West and Chester earn a median of £37,198 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cheshire West and Chester at £25,800, £11,398 below it.
- Community support and outreach, filled posts
- 175
- All adult social care roles, filled posts
- 10,000
- All adult social care roles, vacancy rate
- 5.7%
- Community support and outreach, posts in total
- 175
- Community support and outreach, vacant posts
- 25
- Community support and outreach, vacancy rate
- 11.9%
- Community support and outreach, median hourly pay
- £12.03
- Community support and outreach, median full-time annual pay
- £23,200
The support worker role
Support work is about somebody else's independence rather than your efficiency. You are there so an adult with a learning disability, autism or a mental health condition can run their own day, with as much or as little help as that takes.
The work sits in supported living flats, in shared houses and out in the community. Some of it is personal care. A lot of it is cooking, budgeting, appointments, buses, college and the argument about whose turn it is to do the washing up.
Support worker jobs in Cheshire West and Chester: common questions
How many community support and outreach jobs are there in Cheshire West and Chester?
Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Cheshire West and Chester in 2024/25, with around 25 vacant. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in Cheshire West and Chester.
What does a community support and outreach earn in Cheshire West and Chester?
Median reported pay in Cheshire West and Chester was £12.03 an hour, or about £23,200 a year full time, from local authority and independent sector employers. Each advert states its own rate, and that is the figure that counts.
Do I need experience to apply for support worker jobs in Cheshire West and Chester?
No formal qualifications needed to apply. Enhanced DBS check, paid for by the employer. A driving licence helps for community and outreach rounds. Each advert in Cheshire West and Chester sets out what that employer asks for.