Senior care assistant jobs in Buckinghamshire

Skills for Care recorded 600 filled senior care worker posts in Buckinghamshire in 2024/25, out of 650 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Buckinghamshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Buckinghamshire.

The senior care worker role is 4.8% of the 12,500 filled adult social care posts in Buckinghamshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Buckinghamshire ran at 7.2%. New starters were 4.6% of senior care worker posts in Buckinghamshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Buckinghamshire ranks 7th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 350 filled senior care worker posts, against 600 in Buckinghamshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Buckinghamshire workforce, the same release records 7,500 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 225 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Buckinghamshire was £13.04 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Buckinghamshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Buckinghamshire earn a median of £40,365 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Buckinghamshire at £26,200, £14,165 below it.