Senior care assistant jobs in Worcestershire

Skills for Care recorded 1,000 filled senior care worker posts in Worcestershire in 2024/25, out of 1,000 senior care worker posts in total. Around 10 of those senior care worker posts in Worcestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 1.5% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Worcestershire.

The senior care worker role is 6.5% of the 15,500 filled adult social care posts in Worcestershire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Worcestershire ran at 10.7%. New starters were 8.8% of senior care worker posts in Worcestershire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Worcestershire ranks 3rd 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 1,000 in Worcestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Worcestershire workforce, the same release records 8,700 filled care worker posts, 75 filled deputy manager posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Worcestershire was £12.85 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 Worcestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Worcestershire earn a median of £36,521 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Worcestershire at £25,300, £11,221 below it.