Support worker jobs in Plymouth

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Plymouth in 2024/25, out of 200 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Plymouth were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Plymouth.

The community support and outreach role is 2.3% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Plymouth. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Plymouth ran at 12.7%. New starters were 23.5% of community support and outreach posts in Plymouth over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Plymouth ranks 9th 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 175 in Plymouth. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Plymouth workforce, the same release records 4,100 filled care worker posts, 450 filled senior care worker posts and 25 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Plymouth was £12.10 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Plymouth only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Plymouth earn a median of £36,483 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Plymouth at £24,500, £11,983 below it.