Support worker jobs in Gateshead

Skills for Care recorded 75 filled community support and outreach posts in Gateshead in 2024/25, out of 75 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Gateshead.

The community support and outreach role is 1.2% of the 6,200 filled adult social care posts in Gateshead. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Gateshead ran at 21.9%. New starters were 20.9% of community support and outreach posts in Gateshead over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Gateshead ranks 10th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 162.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 75 in Gateshead. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Gateshead workforce, the same release records 3,400 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Gateshead was £11.97 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Gateshead only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Gateshead earn a median of £33,670 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Gateshead at £25,200, £8,470 below it.