Support worker jobs in Suffolk

Skills for Care recorded 425 filled community support and outreach posts in Suffolk in 2024/25, out of 425 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Suffolk.

The community support and outreach role is 1.8% of the 23,500 filled adult social care posts in Suffolk. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Suffolk ran at 14.4%. New starters were 19.6% of community support and outreach posts in Suffolk over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Suffolk ranks 3rd of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 425 in Suffolk. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Suffolk workforce, the same release records 12,500 filled care worker posts, 1,300 filled senior care worker posts and 450 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Suffolk was £12.02 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Suffolk only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Suffolk earn a median of £36,891 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Suffolk at £25,400, £11,491 below it.