Support worker jobs in Darlington

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Darlington in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Darlington.

The community support and outreach role is 2.8% of the 3,600 filled adult social care posts in Darlington. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Darlington ran at 23%. New starters were 21.5% of community support and outreach posts in Darlington over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Darlington ranks 9th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 162.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 100 in Darlington. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Darlington workforce, the same release records 1,900 filled care worker posts, 175 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Darlington was £12.47 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Darlington only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Darlington earn a median of £33,840 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Darlington at £25,200, £8,640 below it.