Senior care assistant jobs in North Tyneside

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in North Tyneside in 2024/25, out of 300 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 3.5% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in North Tyneside.

The senior care worker role is 4.3% of the 6,400 filled adult social care posts in North Tyneside. Turnover in the senior care worker role in North Tyneside ran at 35.1%. New starters were 34.5% of senior care worker posts in North Tyneside over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, North Tyneside ranks 8th 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 North Tyneside. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the North Tyneside workforce, the same release records 3,500 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in North Tyneside was £12.88 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in North Tyneside only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in North Tyneside earn a median of £37,005 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in North Tyneside at £25,300, £11,705 below it.