Support worker jobs in Shropshire

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled community support and outreach posts in Shropshire in 2024/25, out of 200 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.8% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Shropshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.7% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Shropshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Shropshire ran at 20%. New starters were 23.6% of community support and outreach posts in Shropshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Shropshire ranks 8th 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 200 in Shropshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Shropshire workforce, the same release records 6,300 filled care worker posts, 700 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Shropshire was £12.09 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 Shropshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Shropshire earn a median of £34,232 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Shropshire at £25,300, £8,932 below it.