Support worker jobs in Kirklees

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled community support and outreach posts in Kirklees in 2024/25, out of 250 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Kirklees.

The community support and outreach role is 2% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Kirklees. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Kirklees ran at 9.9%. New starters were 15.1% of community support and outreach posts in Kirklees over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Kirklees ranks 9th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 275 filled community support and outreach posts, against 225 in Kirklees. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Kirklees workforce, the same release records 5,800 filled care worker posts, 600 filled senior care worker posts and 175 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Kirklees was £13.37 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kirklees only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Kirklees earn a median of £33,613 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kirklees at £25,000, £8,613 below it.