Support worker jobs in Reading

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled community support and outreach posts in Reading in 2024/25, out of 150 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Reading.

The community support and outreach role is 3.6% of the 4,200 filled adult social care posts in Reading. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Reading ran at 16%. New starters were 25.1% of community support and outreach posts in Reading over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Reading ranks 13th 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 150 in Reading. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Reading workforce, the same release records 2,400 filled care worker posts, 200 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Reading was £13.28 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Reading only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Reading earn a median of £49,062 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Reading at £26,200, £22,862 below it.