Support worker jobs in Isle of Wight

Skills for Care recorded 250 filled community support and outreach posts in Isle of Wight in 2024/25, out of 275 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Isle of Wight were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Isle of Wight.

The community support and outreach role is 4.7% of the 5,300 filled adult social care posts in Isle of Wight. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Isle of Wight ran at 25.4%. New starters were 14.9% of community support and outreach posts in Isle of Wight over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Isle of Wight ranks 8th 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 250 in Isle of Wight. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Isle of Wight workforce, the same release records 2,400 filled care worker posts, 325 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Isle of Wight was £12.61 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Isle of Wight only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Isle of Wight earn a median of £28,543 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Isle of Wight at £25,400, £3,143 below it.