Support worker jobs in Bath and North East Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled community support and outreach posts in Bath and North East Somerset in 2024/25, out of 50 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Bath and North East Somerset.

The community support and outreach role is 1.2% of the 4,200 filled adult social care posts in Bath and North East Somerset. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Bath and North East Somerset ran at 22.8%. New starters were 24.9% of community support and outreach posts in Bath and North East Somerset over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Bath and North East Somerset ranks 14th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 287.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 50 in Bath and North East Somerset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Bath and North East Somerset workforce, the same release records 1,800 filled care worker posts, 250 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Bath and North East Somerset 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 Bath and North East Somerset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bath and North East Somerset earn a median of £38,040 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bath and North East Somerset at £26,600, £11,440 below it.