Support worker jobs in Greenwich

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Greenwich in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Greenwich.

The community support and outreach role is 1.5% of the 6,600 filled adult social care posts in Greenwich. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Greenwich ran at 3.1%. New starters were 5.7% of community support and outreach posts in Greenwich over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Greenwich ranks 28th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 100 in Greenwich. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Greenwich workforce, the same release records 3,700 filled care worker posts, 250 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Greenwich was £11.59 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £22,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Greenwich only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Greenwich earn a median of £38,128 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Greenwich at £25,800, £12,328 below it.