Support worker jobs in St. Helens

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in St. Helens in 2024/25, out of 125 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 7.1% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in St. Helens.

The community support and outreach role is 2.3% of the 5,500 filled adult social care posts in St. Helens. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in St. Helens ran at 12.1%. New starters were 15.2% of community support and outreach posts in St. Helens over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, St. Helens ranks 21st 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 125 in St. Helens. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the St. Helens workforce, the same release records 2,900 filled care worker posts, 225 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in St. Helens was £11.64 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £22,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in St. Helens only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in St. Helens earn a median of £33,379 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in St. Helens at £24,900, £8,479 below it.