Senior care assistant jobs in Blackpool

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled senior care worker posts in Blackpool in 2024/25, out of 225 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Blackpool.

The senior care worker role is 4.5% of the 5,000 filled adult social care posts in Blackpool. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Blackpool ran at 16.5%. New starters were 16.1% of senior care worker posts in Blackpool over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Blackpool ranks 19th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 312.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 225 in Blackpool. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Blackpool workforce, the same release records 2,400 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Blackpool was £12.59 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Blackpool only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Blackpool earn a median of £32,553 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Blackpool at £25,400, £7,153 below it.