Support worker jobs in South Tyneside

Skills for Care recorded 25 filled community support and outreach posts in South Tyneside in 2024/25, out of 25 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 1.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in South Tyneside.

The community support and outreach role is 0.7% of the 3,400 filled adult social care posts in South Tyneside. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in South Tyneside ran at 22.7%. New starters were 19.8% of community support and outreach posts in South Tyneside over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, South Tyneside ranks 12th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 162.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 25 in South Tyneside. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the South Tyneside workforce, the same release records 1,500 filled care worker posts, 175 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in South Tyneside was £12.12 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in South Tyneside only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in South Tyneside earn a median of £31,604 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in South Tyneside at £26,000, £5,604 below it.