Care assistant jobs in Bath and North East Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 1,800 filled care worker posts in Bath and North East Somerset in 2024/25, out of 1,900 care worker posts in total. Around 125 of those care worker posts in Bath and North East Somerset were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Bath and North East Somerset.

The care worker role is 42.9% of the 4,200 filled adult social care posts in Bath and North East Somerset. Turnover in the care worker role in Bath and North East Somerset ran at 35.1%. New starters were 40.6% of care worker posts in Bath and North East Somerset over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Bath and North East Somerset ranks 14th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 6,250 filled care worker posts, against 1,800 in Bath and North East Somerset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Bath and North East Somerset workforce, the same release records 250 filled senior care worker posts, 50 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Bath and North East Somerset was £12.84 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bath and North East Somerset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bath and North East Somerset earn a median of £38,040 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bath and North East Somerset at £26,600, £11,440 below it.