Support worker jobs in Westminster

Skills for Care recorded 425 filled community support and outreach posts in Westminster in 2024/25, out of 475 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 50 of those community support and outreach posts in Westminster were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Westminster.

The community support and outreach role is 6.3% of the 6,800 filled adult social care posts in Westminster. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Westminster ran at 19.5%. New starters were 26% of community support and outreach posts in Westminster over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Westminster ranks 2nd of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 425 in Westminster. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Westminster workforce, the same release records 3,000 filled care worker posts, 125 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Westminster was £14.25 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £27,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Westminster only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Westminster earn a median of £53,923 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Westminster at £30,200, £23,723 below it.