Support worker jobs in Lancashire

Skills for Care recorded 1,500 filled community support and outreach posts in Lancashire in 2024/25, out of 1,700 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 200 of those community support and outreach posts in Lancashire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 13.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Lancashire.

The community support and outreach role is 3.6% of the 42,000 filled adult social care posts in Lancashire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Lancashire ran at 30.3%. New starters were 37.5% of community support and outreach posts in Lancashire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Lancashire ranks 1st of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 1,500 in Lancashire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Lancashire workforce, the same release records 21,500 filled care worker posts, 2,100 filled senior care worker posts and 475 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Lancashire was £12.13 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lancashire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lancashire earn a median of £35,779 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lancashire at £24,900, £10,879 below it.