Support worker jobs in Doncaster

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in Doncaster in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 4.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Doncaster.

The community support and outreach role is 2.3% of the 8,800 filled adult social care posts in Doncaster. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Doncaster ran at 12.1%. New starters were 16.9% of community support and outreach posts in Doncaster over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Doncaster ranks 12th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 275 filled community support and outreach posts, against 200 in Doncaster. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Doncaster workforce, the same release records 5,000 filled care worker posts, 500 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Doncaster was £12.52 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Doncaster only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Doncaster earn a median of £33,802 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Doncaster at £24,800, £9,002 below it.