Support worker jobs in Hartlepool

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled community support and outreach posts in Hartlepool in 2024/25, out of 150 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 1% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Hartlepool.

The community support and outreach role is 4.5% of the 3,300 filled adult social care posts in Hartlepool. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Hartlepool ran at 4.9%. New starters were 14% of community support and outreach posts in Hartlepool over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Hartlepool ranks 7th 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 150 in Hartlepool. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Hartlepool workforce, the same release records 1,600 filled care worker posts, 125 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Hartlepool was £13.40 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hartlepool only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hartlepool earn a median of £32,302 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hartlepool at £25,200, £7,102 below it.