Support worker jobs in Leicestershire

Skills for Care recorded 600 filled community support and outreach posts in Leicestershire in 2024/25, out of 600 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Leicestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Leicestershire.

The community support and outreach role is 3.4% of the 17,500 filled adult social care posts in Leicestershire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Leicestershire ran at 16.6%. New starters were 14.6% of community support and outreach posts in Leicestershire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Leicestershire ranks 2nd of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 337.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 600 in Leicestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Leicestershire workforce, the same release records 9,800 filled care worker posts, 1,000 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Leicestershire was £13.56 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Leicestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Leicestershire earn a median of £36,208 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leicestershire at £24,700, £11,508 below it.