Support worker jobs in Coventry

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled community support and outreach posts in Coventry in 2024/25, out of 275 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Coventry were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 13.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Coventry.

The community support and outreach role is 2.3% of the 9,600 filled adult social care posts in Coventry. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Coventry ran at 12.6%. New starters were 15.3% of community support and outreach posts in Coventry over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Coventry ranks 7th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 212.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 225 in Coventry. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Coventry workforce, the same release records 5,200 filled care worker posts, 500 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Coventry was £12.84 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 Coventry only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Coventry earn a median of £41,278 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Coventry at £25,200, £16,078 below it.