Support worker jobs in Blackpool

Skills for Care recorded 250 filled community support and outreach posts in Blackpool in 2024/25, out of 275 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Blackpool were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Blackpool.

The community support and outreach role is 5% of the 5,000 filled adult social care posts in Blackpool. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Blackpool ran at 13.6%. New starters were 13% of community support and outreach posts in Blackpool over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Blackpool ranks 11th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 250 in Blackpool. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Blackpool workforce, the same release records 2,400 filled care worker posts, 225 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Blackpool was £13.26 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Blackpool only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Blackpool earn a median of £32,553 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Blackpool at £25,400, £7,153 below it.