Support worker jobs in Torbay

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Torbay in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Torbay.

The community support and outreach role is 2% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Torbay. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Torbay ran at 13.7%. New starters were 12.9% of community support and outreach posts in Torbay over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Torbay ranks 13th 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 100 in Torbay. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Torbay workforce, the same release records 2,600 filled care worker posts, 300 filled senior care worker posts and 25 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Torbay was £11.93 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £22,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Torbay only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Torbay earn a median of £30,873 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Torbay at £24,900, £5,973 below it.