Support worker jobs in Southwark

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled community support and outreach posts in Southwark in 2024/25, out of 300 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Southwark were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.1% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Southwark.

The community support and outreach role is 4.3% of the 7,000 filled adult social care posts in Southwark. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Southwark ran at 10.3%. New starters were 16.5% of community support and outreach posts in Southwark over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Southwark ranks 8th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 300 in Southwark. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Southwark workforce, the same release records 3,800 filled care worker posts, 175 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Southwark was £13.76 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Southwark only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Southwark earn a median of £50,000 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Southwark at £27,200, £22,800 below it.