Support worker jobs in Kent

Skills for Care recorded 1,500 filled community support and outreach posts in Kent in 2024/25, out of 1,600 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 100 of those community support and outreach posts in Kent were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Kent.

The community support and outreach role is 3.4% of the 44,000 filled adult social care posts in Kent. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Kent ran at 25.7%. New starters were 29.4% of community support and outreach posts in Kent over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Kent ranks 1st of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 200 filled community support and outreach posts, against 1,500 in Kent. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Kent workforce, the same release records 23,000 filled care worker posts, 2,500 filled senior care worker posts and 425 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Kent was £12.70 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kent only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Kent earn a median of £36,127 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kent at £25,300, £10,827 below it.