Support worker jobs in York

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled community support and outreach posts in York in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in York.

The community support and outreach role is 3.6% of the 6,300 filled adult social care posts in York. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in York ran at 24.8%. New starters were 22.4% of community support and outreach posts in York over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, York ranks 11th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 275 filled community support and outreach posts, against 225 in York. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the York workforce, the same release records 3,400 filled care worker posts, 300 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in York was £12.04 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in York only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in York earn a median of £39,337 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in York at £25,400, £13,937 below it.