Support worker jobs in North Northamptonshire

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in North Northamptonshire in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in North Northamptonshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.9% of the 10,500 filled adult social care posts in North Northamptonshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in North Northamptonshire ran at 12.5%. New starters were 26.5% of community support and outreach posts in North Northamptonshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, North Northamptonshire ranks 8th 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 200 in North Northamptonshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the North Northamptonshire workforce, the same release records 6,200 filled care worker posts, 550 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in North Northamptonshire was £13.16 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in North Northamptonshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in North Northamptonshire earn a median of £35,745 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in North Northamptonshire at £25,100, £10,645 below it.