Support worker jobs in Portsmouth

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in Portsmouth in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Portsmouth were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Portsmouth.

The community support and outreach role is 4.2% of the 4,800 filled adult social care posts in Portsmouth. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Portsmouth ran at 17%. New starters were 12.2% of community support and outreach posts in Portsmouth over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Portsmouth ranks 10th 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 200 in Portsmouth. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Portsmouth workforce, the same release records 2,600 filled care worker posts, 200 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Portsmouth was £13.62 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Portsmouth only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Portsmouth earn a median of £38,815 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Portsmouth at £26,000, £12,815 below it.