Support worker jobs in Walsall

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in Walsall in 2024/25, out of 125 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 6.1% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Walsall.

The community support and outreach role is 1.6% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Walsall. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Walsall ran at 11.8%. New starters were 13.4% of community support and outreach posts in Walsall over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Walsall ranks 12th 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 125 in Walsall. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Walsall workforce, the same release records 4,300 filled care worker posts, 350 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Walsall was £11.84 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £22,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Walsall only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Walsall earn a median of £34,980 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Walsall at £25,600, £9,380 below it.