Support worker jobs in Lambeth

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled community support and outreach posts in Lambeth in 2024/25, out of 300 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Lambeth.

The community support and outreach role is 3.8% of the 8,000 filled adult social care posts in Lambeth. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Lambeth ran at 13.4%. New starters were 10.3% of community support and outreach posts in Lambeth over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Lambeth ranks 7th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 300 in Lambeth. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Lambeth workforce, the same release records 4,200 filled care worker posts, 325 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Lambeth was £12.95 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lambeth only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lambeth earn a median of £48,690 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lambeth at £26,800, £21,890 below it.