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Senior care assistant jobs in Lewisham

Adult social care in Lewisham employs people in 275 filled senior care worker posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.

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Published figures for Lewisham

What the official data says about Lewisham

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Lewisham in 2024/25, out of 275 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 3.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Lewisham.

The senior care worker role is 4% of the 6,800 filled adult social care posts in Lewisham. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Lewisham ran at 14.4%. New starters were 14.8% of senior care worker posts in Lewisham over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Lewisham ranks 11th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 250 filled senior care worker posts, against 275 in Lewisham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Lewisham workforce, the same release records 3,700 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

No pay figure is published for the senior care worker role in Lewisham. The only local pay figure Skills for Care releases for the area is £14.32 an hour across all adult social care roles together, which is a different population and not a substitute.

Skills for Care withholds an hourly pay figure, a full-time annual pay figure for the senior care worker role in Lewisham: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Lewisham earn a median of £42,962 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lewisham at £27,600, £15,362 below it.

Senior care worker, filled posts
275
Care worker, median hourly pay
£13.09
Senior care worker, posts in total
275
Senior care worker, vacancy rate
3.8%
Senior care worker, turnover rate
14.4%
Senior care worker, starters in the last 12 months
14.8%

The senior care assistant role

A senior care assistant runs the shift. You still deliver care, but you also hold the medication trolley, allocate the floor, handle the family who arrives upset and decide when something needs escalating to the manager or to a GP.

It is the first step where accountability moves from your own practice to other people's. Most seniors come up through a care assistant role in the same service rather than arriving from outside.

Full guide to senior care assistant jobs

Senior care assistant jobs in Lewisham: common questions

How many senior care worker jobs are there in Lewisham?

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Lewisham in 2024/25. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in Lewisham.

What does a senior care worker earn in Lewisham?

Skills for Care does not publish a pay figure for the senior care worker role in Lewisham: the sample is too small to release. Each advert on this page states its own rate.

Do I need experience to apply for senior care assistant jobs in Lewisham?

Usually a year or more in a care assistant role. Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care, or working towards it. Medication administration training. Each advert in Lewisham sets out what that employer asks for.