Support worker jobs in Bury

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Bury in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Bury.

The community support and outreach role is 1.9% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Bury. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Bury ran at 13.3%. New starters were 10.8% of community support and outreach posts in Bury over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Bury ranks 23rd 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 100 in Bury. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Bury workforce, the same release records 2,500 filled care worker posts, 250 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Bury was £12.97 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bury only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bury earn a median of £34,968 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bury at £26,000, £8,968 below it.