Support worker jobs in Solihull

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in Solihull in 2024/25, out of 200 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 1.1% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Solihull.

The community support and outreach role is 3.1% of the 6,400 filled adult social care posts in Solihull. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Solihull ran at 12.7%. New starters were 18.3% of community support and outreach posts in Solihull over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Solihull ranks 9th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 212.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 200 in Solihull. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Solihull workforce, the same release records 3,400 filled care worker posts, 325 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Solihull was £13.49 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Solihull only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Solihull earn a median of £42,587 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Solihull at £25,600, £16,987 below it.