Support worker jobs in Tower Hamlets

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled community support and outreach posts in Tower Hamlets in 2024/25, out of 225 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.7% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Tower Hamlets.

The community support and outreach role is 3% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Tower Hamlets. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Tower Hamlets ran at 11.7%. New starters were 16.3% of community support and outreach posts in Tower Hamlets over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Tower Hamlets ranks 12th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 225 in Tower Hamlets. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Tower Hamlets workforce, the same release records 4,400 filled care worker posts, 225 filled senior care worker posts and 175 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Tower Hamlets was £12.84 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Tower Hamlets only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Tower Hamlets earn a median of £66,686 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Tower Hamlets at £27,700, £38,986 below it.