Support worker jobs in Dudley

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in Dudley in 2024/25, out of 150 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 1.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Dudley.

The community support and outreach role is 1.7% of the 7,400 filled adult social care posts in Dudley. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Dudley ran at 13%. New starters were 17.8% of community support and outreach posts in Dudley over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Dudley ranks 11th 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 125 in Dudley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Dudley workforce, the same release records 3,900 filled care worker posts, 450 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Dudley was £12.28 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Dudley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Dudley earn a median of £35,281 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Dudley at £24,800, £10,481 below it.