Support worker jobs in Lewisham

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Lewisham in 2024/25, out of 175 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Lewisham.

The community support and outreach role is 2.6% of the 6,800 filled adult social care posts in Lewisham. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Lewisham ran at 15.2%. New starters were 23.5% of community support and outreach posts in Lewisham over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Lewisham ranks 19th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 175 in Lewisham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Lewisham workforce, the same release records 3,700 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Lewisham was £13.71 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lewisham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lewisham earn a median of £42,962 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lewisham at £27,600, £15,362 below it.