Senior care assistant jobs in Northumberland

Skills for Care recorded 650 filled senior care worker posts in Northumberland in 2024/25, out of 700 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Northumberland were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Northumberland.

The senior care worker role is 6.8% of the 9,500 filled adult social care posts in Northumberland. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Northumberland ran at 28.2%. New starters were 18.4% of senior care worker posts in Northumberland over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Northumberland ranks 2nd 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 650 in Northumberland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Northumberland workforce, the same release records 4,800 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Northumberland was £13.45 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Northumberland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Northumberland earn a median of £35,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Northumberland at £25,900, £9,423 below it.