Support worker jobs in Telford and Wrekin

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled community support and outreach posts in Telford and Wrekin in 2024/25, out of 100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Telford and Wrekin.

The community support and outreach role is 1.6% of the 6,200 filled adult social care posts in Telford and Wrekin. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Telford and Wrekin ran at 17.7%. New starters were 14.3% of community support and outreach posts in Telford and Wrekin over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Telford and Wrekin ranks 13th 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 100 in Telford and Wrekin. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Telford and Wrekin workforce, the same release records 3,800 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Telford and Wrekin was £13.20 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Telford and Wrekin only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Telford and Wrekin earn a median of £36,532 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Telford and Wrekin at £25,600, £10,932 below it.