Support worker jobs in Dorset

Skills for Care recorded 450 filled community support and outreach posts in Dorset in 2024/25, out of 475 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Dorset were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Dorset.

The community support and outreach role is 4.3% of the 10,500 filled adult social care posts in Dorset. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Dorset ran at 25.6%. New starters were 31.4% of community support and outreach posts in Dorset over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Dorset ranks 2nd of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 287.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 450 in Dorset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Dorset workforce, the same release records 5,200 filled care worker posts, 700 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Dorset was £12.28 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Dorset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Dorset earn a median of £35,311 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Dorset at £25,800, £9,511 below it.