Support worker jobs in Middlesbrough

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled community support and outreach posts in Middlesbrough in 2024/25, out of 325 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 1.2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Middlesbrough.

The community support and outreach role is 4.5% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Middlesbrough. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Middlesbrough ran at 16.4%. New starters were 14.6% of community support and outreach posts in Middlesbrough over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Middlesbrough ranks 2nd of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 162.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 325 in Middlesbrough. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Middlesbrough workforce, the same release records 3,100 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Middlesbrough was £12.97 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 Middlesbrough only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Middlesbrough earn a median of £34,000 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Middlesbrough at £25,700, £8,300 below it.