Senior care assistant jobs in Wakefield

Skills for Care recorded 500 filled senior care worker posts in Wakefield in 2024/25, out of 500 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Wakefield.

The senior care worker role is 5.2% of the 9,600 filled adult social care posts in Wakefield. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Wakefield ran at 24.7%. New starters were 20.4% of senior care worker posts in Wakefield over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Wakefield ranks 8th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 500 filled senior care worker posts, against 500 in Wakefield. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Wakefield workforce, the same release records 4,900 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wakefield was £12.82 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wakefield only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wakefield earn a median of £35,838 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wakefield at £25,300, £10,538 below it.