Support worker jobs in Norfolk

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled community support and outreach posts in Norfolk in 2024/25, out of 375 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Norfolk were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Norfolk.

The community support and outreach role is 1.3% of the 28,000 filled adult social care posts in Norfolk. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Norfolk ran at 17.4%. New starters were 21.4% of community support and outreach posts in Norfolk over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Norfolk ranks 4th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 350 in Norfolk. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Norfolk workforce, the same release records 13,500 filled care worker posts, 1,500 filled senior care worker posts and 550 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Norfolk was £12.59 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Norfolk only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Norfolk earn a median of £35,940 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Norfolk at £26,200, £9,740 below it.