Care home nurse jobs in Kirklees

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled registered nurse posts in Kirklees in 2024/25, out of 200 registered nurse posts in total. That is a 1.7% vacancy rate for the registered nurse role in Kirklees.

The registered nurse role is 1.7% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Kirklees. Turnover in the registered nurse role in Kirklees ran at 19.6%. New starters were 61.3% of registered nurse posts in Kirklees over the year.

On filled registered nurse posts, Kirklees ranks 5th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 150 filled registered nurse posts, against 200 in Kirklees. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 150.

For the shape of the rest of the Kirklees workforce, the same release records 600 filled senior care worker posts, 200 filled registered manager posts and 5,800 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in Kirklees was £19.86 an hour for the registered nurse role and about £38,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kirklees only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Kirklees earn a median of £33,613 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kirklees at £25,000, £8,613 below it.