Support worker jobs in Cambridgeshire

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled community support and outreach posts in Cambridgeshire in 2024/25, out of 300 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Cambridgeshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Cambridgeshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.7% of the 16,000 filled adult social care posts in Cambridgeshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Cambridgeshire ran at 11.4%. New starters were 26.3% of community support and outreach posts in Cambridgeshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Cambridgeshire ranks 5th 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 275 in Cambridgeshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Cambridgeshire workforce, the same release records 8,600 filled care worker posts, 850 filled senior care worker posts and 225 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Cambridgeshire was £12.31 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cambridgeshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cambridgeshire earn a median of £42,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cambridgeshire at £26,100, £16,223 below it.