Support worker jobs in Knowsley

Skills for Care recorded 75 filled community support and outreach posts in Knowsley in 2024/25, out of 75 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Knowsley.

The community support and outreach role is 1.4% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Knowsley. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Knowsley ran at 14.4%. New starters were 17.2% of community support and outreach posts in Knowsley over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Knowsley ranks 24th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 75 in Knowsley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Knowsley workforce, the same release records 2,100 filled care worker posts, 150 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Knowsley was £12.11 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Knowsley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Knowsley earn a median of £39,064 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Knowsley at £25,800, £13,264 below it.