Support worker jobs in Bexley

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Bexley in 2024/25, out of 175 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 6.1% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Bexley.

The community support and outreach role is 3.2% of the 5,500 filled adult social care posts in Bexley. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Bexley ran at 10%. New starters were 17.6% of community support and outreach posts in Bexley over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Bexley ranks 17th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 175 in Bexley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Bexley workforce, the same release records 2,900 filled care worker posts, 250 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Bexley was £12.43 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bexley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bexley earn a median of £35,187 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bexley at £25,000, £10,187 below it.