Support worker jobs in Bradford

Skills for Care recorded 500 filled community support and outreach posts in Bradford in 2024/25, out of 550 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Bradford were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Bradford.

The community support and outreach role is 3% of the 16,500 filled adult social care posts in Bradford. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Bradford ran at 14.8%. New starters were 15.2% of community support and outreach posts in Bradford over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Bradford ranks 2nd 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 500 in Bradford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Bradford workforce, the same release records 8,100 filled care worker posts, 900 filled senior care worker posts and 275 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Bradford was £13.22 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bradford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bradford earn a median of £35,213 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bradford at £25,400, £9,813 below it.