Support worker jobs in Cornwall

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled community support and outreach posts in Cornwall in 2024/25, out of 350 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Cornwall were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 12.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Cornwall.

The community support and outreach role is 1.9% of the 17,500 filled adult social care posts in Cornwall. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Cornwall ran at 13.1%. New starters were 13.8% of community support and outreach posts in Cornwall over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Cornwall ranks 6th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 287.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 325 in Cornwall. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Cornwall workforce, the same release records 8,600 filled care worker posts, 950 filled senior care worker posts and 250 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Cornwall was £12.83 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cornwall only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cornwall earn a median of £33,889 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cornwall at £25,800, £8,089 below it.