Support worker jobs in Lincolnshire

Skills for Care recorded 500 filled community support and outreach posts in Lincolnshire in 2024/25, out of 550 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 50 of those community support and outreach posts in Lincolnshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Lincolnshire.

The community support and outreach role is 2.2% of the 22,500 filled adult social care posts in Lincolnshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Lincolnshire ran at 15.9%. New starters were 14.3% of community support and outreach posts in Lincolnshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Lincolnshire ranks 4th 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 500 in Lincolnshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Lincolnshire workforce, the same release records 13,000 filled care worker posts, 1,400 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Lincolnshire was £12.39 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lincolnshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lincolnshire earn a median of £33,324 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lincolnshire at £24,900, £8,424 below it.