Support worker jobs in Bedford

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Bedford in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Bedford.

The community support and outreach role is 1.8% of the 5,600 filled adult social care posts in Bedford. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Bedford ran at 13%. New starters were 20.8% of community support and outreach posts in Bedford over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Bedford ranks 10th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 100 in Bedford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Bedford workforce, the same release records 3,300 filled care worker posts, 350 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Bedford was £12.17 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bedford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bedford earn a median of £37,994 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bedford at £25,000, £12,994 below it.