Support worker jobs in North Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in North Somerset in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in North Somerset.

The community support and outreach role is 1.4% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in North Somerset. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in North Somerset ran at 23.3%. New starters were 27.5% of community support and outreach posts in North Somerset over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, North Somerset ranks 11th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 287.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 100 in North Somerset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the North Somerset workforce, the same release records 3,500 filled care worker posts, 425 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in North Somerset was £12.39 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in North Somerset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in North Somerset earn a median of £34,838 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in North Somerset at £26,100, £8,738 below it.