Support worker jobs in Wolverhampton

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled community support and outreach posts in Wolverhampton in 2024/25, out of 325 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Wolverhampton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Wolverhampton.

The community support and outreach role is 3.1% of the 10,500 filled adult social care posts in Wolverhampton. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Wolverhampton ran at 17.7%.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Wolverhampton ranks 4th 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 325 in Wolverhampton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Wolverhampton workforce, the same release records 6,100 filled care worker posts, 475 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Wolverhampton was £12.99 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wolverhampton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wolverhampton earn a median of £35,740 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wolverhampton at £24,400, £11,340 below it.