Support worker jobs in Oldham

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in Oldham in 2024/25, out of 125 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Oldham.

The community support and outreach role is 1.6% of the 7,800 filled adult social care posts in Oldham. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Oldham ran at 11.1%. New starters were 14% of community support and outreach posts in Oldham over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Oldham ranks 20th 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 125 in Oldham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Oldham workforce, the same release records 3,800 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Oldham was £12.74 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Oldham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Oldham earn a median of £33,860 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Oldham at £26,100, £7,760 below it.