Senior care assistant jobs in Gateshead

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Gateshead in 2024/25, out of 275 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0.4% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Gateshead.

The senior care worker role is 4.4% of the 6,200 filled adult social care posts in Gateshead. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Gateshead ran at 34.8%. New starters were 18% of senior care worker posts in Gateshead over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Gateshead ranks 6th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 275 filled senior care worker posts, against 275 in Gateshead. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Gateshead workforce, the same release records 3,400 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Gateshead was £13.17 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Gateshead only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Gateshead earn a median of £33,670 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Gateshead at £25,200, £8,470 below it.