Support worker jobs in Newham

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in Newham in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 4.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Newham.

The community support and outreach role is 2.9% of the 7,000 filled adult social care posts in Newham. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Newham ran at 8.6%. New starters were 9.6% of community support and outreach posts in Newham over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Newham ranks 15th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 200 in Newham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Newham workforce, the same release records 3,100 filled care worker posts, 250 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Newham was £14.95 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £28,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Newham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Newham earn a median of £44,347 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Newham at £27,000, £17,347 below it.