Support worker jobs in Trafford

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in Trafford in 2024/25, out of 125 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 1.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Trafford.

The community support and outreach role is 2.3% of the 5,400 filled adult social care posts in Trafford. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Trafford ran at 13.1%. New starters were 17.2% of community support and outreach posts in Trafford over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Trafford ranks 22nd of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 125 in Trafford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Trafford workforce, the same release records 3,000 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Trafford was £12.94 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Trafford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Trafford earn a median of £38,682 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Trafford at £25,600, £13,082 below it.