Support worker jobs in East Sussex

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled community support and outreach posts in East Sussex in 2024/25, out of 400 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in East Sussex were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in East Sussex.

The community support and outreach role is 2% of the 19,000 filled adult social care posts in East Sussex. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in East Sussex ran at 19.4%. New starters were 21.5% of community support and outreach posts in East Sussex over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, East Sussex ranks 5th 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 375 in East Sussex. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the East Sussex workforce, the same release records 8,600 filled care worker posts, 1,200 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in East Sussex was £13.63 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in East Sussex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in East Sussex earn a median of £35,557 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in East Sussex at £26,500, £9,057 below it.