Support worker jobs in Barnet

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled community support and outreach posts in Barnet in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Barnet.

The community support and outreach role is 2% of the 11,000 filled adult social care posts in Barnet. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Barnet ran at 9.6%. New starters were 12.9% of community support and outreach posts in Barnet over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Barnet ranks 10th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 225 in Barnet. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Barnet workforce, the same release records 5,400 filled care worker posts, 700 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Barnet was £12.77 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Barnet only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Barnet earn a median of £38,294 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barnet at £26,700, £11,594 below it.