Senior care assistant jobs in Tameside

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled senior care worker posts in Tameside in 2024/25, out of 225 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 3.3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Tameside.

The senior care worker role is 4.3% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Tameside. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Tameside ran at 7.1%. New starters were 10.6% of senior care worker posts in Tameside over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Tameside ranks 21st of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 312.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 225 in Tameside. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Tameside workforce, the same release records 2,900 filled care worker posts, 10 filled deputy manager posts and 50 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Tameside was £13.30 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Tameside only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Tameside earn a median of £30,734 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Tameside at £26,100, £4,634 below it.