Support worker jobs in Sefton

Skills for Care recorded 750 filled community support and outreach posts in Sefton in 2024/25, out of 750 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Sefton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 1.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Sefton.

The community support and outreach role is 6.5% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Sefton. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Sefton ran at 3.9%. New starters were 12.4% of community support and outreach posts in Sefton over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Sefton ranks 2nd 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 750 in Sefton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Sefton workforce, the same release records 5,400 filled care worker posts, 600 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Sefton was £12.57 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 Sefton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sefton earn a median of £33,028 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sefton at £25,200, £7,828 below it.