Support worker jobs in Sutton

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Sutton in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 6.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Sutton.

The community support and outreach role is 1.8% of the 5,700 filled adult social care posts in Sutton. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Sutton ran at 15.6%. New starters were 13.9% of community support and outreach posts in Sutton over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Sutton ranks 32nd of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 100 in Sutton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Sutton workforce, the same release records 3,300 filled care worker posts, 250 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Sutton was £12.68 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sutton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sutton earn a median of £39,874 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sutton at £26,800, £13,074 below it.