Support worker jobs in Halton

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled community support and outreach posts in Halton in 2024/25, out of 300 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Halton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Halton.

The community support and outreach role is 8.1% of the 3,700 filled adult social care posts in Halton. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Halton ran at 10.9%. New starters were 15.7% of community support and outreach posts in Halton over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Halton ranks 8th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 300 in Halton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Halton workforce, the same release records 1,300 filled care worker posts, 100 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Halton was £14.09 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £27,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Halton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Halton earn a median of £37,336 a year, counting every occupation in the area together.