Care assistant jobs in Hartlepool

Skills for Care recorded 1,600 filled care worker posts in Hartlepool in 2024/25, out of 1,600 care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those care worker posts in Hartlepool were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 1.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Hartlepool.

The care worker role is 48.5% of the 3,300 filled adult social care posts in Hartlepool. Turnover in the care worker role in Hartlepool ran at 18.8%. New starters were 25.8% of care worker posts in Hartlepool over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Hartlepool ranks 11th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 3,300 filled care worker posts, against 1,600 in Hartlepool. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Hartlepool workforce, the same release records 125 filled senior care worker posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Hartlepool was £11.84 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hartlepool only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hartlepool earn a median of £32,302 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hartlepool at £25,200, £7,102 below it.