Support worker jobs in Cheshire East

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled community support and outreach posts in Cheshire East in 2024/25, out of 325 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Cheshire East were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Cheshire East.

The community support and outreach role is 2.5% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Cheshire East. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Cheshire East ran at 12.6%. New starters were 21.7% of community support and outreach posts in Cheshire East over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Cheshire East ranks 7th 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 300 in Cheshire East. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Cheshire East workforce, the same release records 6,500 filled care worker posts, 800 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Cheshire East was £12.45 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cheshire East only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cheshire East earn a median of £39,459 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cheshire East at £26,000, £13,459 below it.