Support worker jobs in Thurrock

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled community support and outreach posts in Thurrock in 2024/25, out of 125 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Thurrock.

The community support and outreach role is 3.1% of the 4,000 filled adult social care posts in Thurrock. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Thurrock ran at 15.9%. New starters were 18.8% of community support and outreach posts in Thurrock over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Thurrock ranks 9th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 125 in Thurrock. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Thurrock workforce, the same release records 2,100 filled care worker posts, 175 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Thurrock was £14.10 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £27,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Thurrock only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Thurrock earn a median of £40,623 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Thurrock at £25,900, £14,723 below it.