Support worker jobs in Leicester

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled community support and outreach posts in Leicester in 2024/25, out of 325 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Leicester were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Leicester.

The community support and outreach role is 2.3% of the 13,000 filled adult social care posts in Leicester. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Leicester ran at 18.9%. New starters were 15.7% of community support and outreach posts in Leicester over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Leicester ranks 6th of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 337.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 300 in Leicester. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Leicester workforce, the same release records 7,900 filled care worker posts, 650 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Leicester was £13.83 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Leicester only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Leicester earn a median of £34,096 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leicester at £24,700, £9,396 below it.