Support worker jobs in Medway

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled community support and outreach posts in Medway in 2024/25, out of 250 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Medway were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Medway.

The community support and outreach role is 3.3% of the 6,900 filled adult social care posts in Medway. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Medway ran at 10.2%. New starters were 15% of community support and outreach posts in Medway over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Medway ranks 9th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 200 filled community support and outreach posts, against 225 in Medway. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Medway workforce, the same release records 3,900 filled care worker posts, 375 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Medway was £12.07 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 Medway only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Medway earn a median of £37,128 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Medway at £24,800, £12,328 below it.