Support worker jobs in Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled community support and outreach posts in Somerset in 2024/25, out of 375 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Somerset were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Somerset.

The community support and outreach role is 1.9% of the 18,000 filled adult social care posts in Somerset. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Somerset ran at 13.5%. New starters were 19.8% of community support and outreach posts in Somerset over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Somerset ranks 5th 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 350 in Somerset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Somerset workforce, the same release records 9,200 filled care worker posts, 1,100 filled senior care worker posts and 175 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Somerset was £13.25 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Somerset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Somerset earn a median of £35,440 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Somerset at £25,400, £10,040 below it.