Support worker jobs in Wakefield

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled community support and outreach posts in Wakefield in 2024/25, out of 325 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Wakefield.

The community support and outreach role is 3.1% of the 9,600 filled adult social care posts in Wakefield. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Wakefield ran at 19.3%. New starters were 18.5% of community support and outreach posts in Wakefield over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Wakefield ranks 7th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 275 filled community support and outreach posts, against 300 in Wakefield. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Wakefield workforce, the same release records 4,900 filled care worker posts, 500 filled senior care worker posts and 225 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Wakefield was £13.47 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wakefield only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wakefield earn a median of £35,838 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wakefield at £25,300, £10,538 below it.