Support worker jobs in Barnsley

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Barnsley in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 1.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Barnsley.

The community support and outreach role is 1.6% of the 6,400 filled adult social care posts in Barnsley. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Barnsley ran at 10.2%. New starters were 12.6% of community support and outreach posts in Barnsley over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Barnsley ranks 14th 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 100 in Barnsley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Barnsley workforce, the same release records 3,500 filled care worker posts, 375 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Barnsley was £12.39 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Barnsley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Barnsley earn a median of £35,629 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barnsley at £25,300, £10,329 below it.