Support worker jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled community support and outreach posts in Stoke-on-Trent in 2024/25, out of 150 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 6.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Stoke-on-Trent.

The community support and outreach role is 1.9% of the 8,000 filled adult social care posts in Stoke-on-Trent. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Stoke-on-Trent ran at 22.8%. New starters were 15.9% of community support and outreach posts in Stoke-on-Trent over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 10th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 212.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 150 in Stoke-on-Trent. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Stoke-on-Trent workforce, the same release records 4,800 filled care worker posts, 425 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Stoke-on-Trent was £12.35 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 Stoke-on-Trent only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Stoke-on-Trent earn a median of £34,744 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Stoke-on-Trent at £25,200, £9,544 below it.