Support worker jobs in Merton

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Merton in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 4.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Merton.

The community support and outreach role is 2.2% of the 4,600 filled adult social care posts in Merton. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Merton ran at 8.5%. New starters were 14.9% of community support and outreach posts in Merton over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Merton ranks 31st of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 100 in Merton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Merton workforce, the same release records 2,700 filled care worker posts, 225 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Merton was £14.16 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £27,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Merton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Merton earn a median of £38,471 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Merton at £26,900, £11,571 below it.