Care assistant jobs in Bracknell Forest

Skills for Care recorded 1,200 filled care worker posts in Bracknell Forest in 2024/25, out of 1,300 care worker posts in total. Around 150 of those care worker posts in Bracknell Forest were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 12% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Bracknell Forest.

The care worker role is 54.5% of the 2,200 filled adult social care posts in Bracknell Forest. Turnover in the care worker role in Bracknell Forest ran at 40.9%. New starters were 33.3% of care worker posts in Bracknell Forest over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Bracknell Forest ranks 19th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 3,700 filled care worker posts, against 1,200 in Bracknell Forest. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Bracknell Forest workforce, the same release records 100 filled senior care worker posts, 50 filled community support and outreach posts and 25 filled registered nurse posts.

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

Full-time workers in Bracknell Forest earn a median of £44,883 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bracknell Forest at £27,700, £17,183 below it.