Care assistant jobs in Lambeth

Skills for Care recorded 4,200 filled care worker posts in Lambeth in 2024/25, out of 4,300 care worker posts in total. Around 125 of those care worker posts in Lambeth were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Lambeth.

The care worker role is 52.5% of the 8,000 filled adult social care posts in Lambeth. Turnover in the care worker role in Lambeth ran at 18.7%. New starters were 32.9% of care worker posts in Lambeth over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Lambeth ranks 7th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 4,200 in Lambeth. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Lambeth workforce, the same release records 325 filled senior care worker posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Lambeth was £12.35 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lambeth only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lambeth earn a median of £48,690 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lambeth at £26,800, £21,890 below it.