Senior care assistant jobs in Wolverhampton

Skills for Care recorded 475 filled senior care worker posts in Wolverhampton in 2024/25, out of 500 senior care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those senior care worker posts in Wolverhampton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.4% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Wolverhampton.

The senior care worker role is 4.5% of the 10,500 filled adult social care posts in Wolverhampton. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Wolverhampton ran at 3.5%. New starters were 10.3% of senior care worker posts in Wolverhampton over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Wolverhampton ranks 7th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 462.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 475 in Wolverhampton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Wolverhampton workforce, the same release records 6,100 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 200 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wolverhampton was £12.68 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wolverhampton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wolverhampton earn a median of £35,740 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wolverhampton at £24,400, £11,340 below it.