Support worker jobs in Liverpool

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled community support and outreach posts in Liverpool in 2024/25, out of 400 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Liverpool were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Liverpool.

The community support and outreach role is 2.5% of the 15,000 filled adult social care posts in Liverpool. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Liverpool ran at 15.2%. New starters were 19.6% of community support and outreach posts in Liverpool over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Liverpool ranks 5th 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 375 in Liverpool. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Liverpool workforce, the same release records 8,000 filled care worker posts, 600 filled senior care worker posts and 275 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Liverpool was £12.04 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Liverpool only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Liverpool earn a median of £38,430 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Liverpool at £25,700, £12,730 below it.