Support worker jobs in Blackburn with Darwen

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled community support and outreach posts in Blackburn with Darwen in 2024/25, out of 275 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Blackburn with Darwen.

The community support and outreach role is 6.3% of the 4,400 filled adult social care posts in Blackburn with Darwen. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Blackburn with Darwen ran at 16.9%. New starters were 20% of community support and outreach posts in Blackburn with Darwen over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Blackburn with Darwen ranks 10th 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 275 in Blackburn with Darwen. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Blackburn with Darwen workforce, the same release records 2,200 filled care worker posts, 200 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Blackburn with Darwen was £13.41 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Blackburn with Darwen only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Blackburn with Darwen earn a median of £36,223 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Blackburn with Darwen at £25,300, £10,923 below it.