Support worker jobs in Brent

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in Brent in 2024/25, out of 150 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Brent were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Brent.

The community support and outreach role is 1.8% of the 6,900 filled adult social care posts in Brent. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Brent ran at 6.5%. New starters were 12% of community support and outreach posts in Brent over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Brent ranks 24th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 125 in Brent. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Brent workforce, the same release records 3,900 filled care worker posts, 250 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Brent was £12.41 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 Brent only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Brent earn a median of £38,311 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Brent at £26,200, £12,111 below it.