Care assistant jobs in South Tyneside

Skills for Care recorded 1,500 filled care worker posts in South Tyneside in 2024/25, out of 1,600 care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those care worker posts in South Tyneside were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in South Tyneside.

The care worker role is 44.1% of the 3,400 filled adult social care posts in South Tyneside. Turnover in the care worker role in South Tyneside ran at 31.9%. New starters were 29.9% of care worker posts in South Tyneside over the year.

On filled care worker posts, South Tyneside ranks 12th 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 1,500 in South Tyneside. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the South Tyneside workforce, the same release records 175 filled senior care worker posts, 25 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in South Tyneside was £12.17 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in South Tyneside only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in South Tyneside earn a median of £31,604 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in South Tyneside at £26,000, £5,604 below it.