Support worker jobs in Surrey

Skills for Care recorded 800 filled community support and outreach posts in Surrey in 2024/25, out of 850 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 50 of those community support and outreach posts in Surrey were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Surrey.

The community support and outreach role is 2.4% of the 34,000 filled adult social care posts in Surrey. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Surrey ran at 23.2%. New starters were 27% of community support and outreach posts in Surrey over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Surrey ranks 3rd of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 200 filled community support and outreach posts, against 800 in Surrey. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Surrey workforce, the same release records 17,500 filled care worker posts, 2,000 filled senior care worker posts and 400 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Surrey was £13.47 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Surrey only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Surrey earn a median of £42,500 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Surrey at £26,700, £15,800 below it.