Care assistant jobs in Blackpool

Skills for Care recorded 2,400 filled care worker posts in Blackpool in 2024/25, out of 2,700 care worker posts in total. Around 250 of those care worker posts in Blackpool were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Blackpool.

The care worker role is 48% of the 5,000 filled adult social care posts in Blackpool. Turnover in the care worker role in Blackpool ran at 36.7%. New starters were 29.9% of care worker posts in Blackpool over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Blackpool ranks 21st of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 2,400 in Blackpool. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Blackpool workforce, the same release records 225 filled senior care worker posts, 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Blackpool was £12.04 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Blackpool only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Blackpool earn a median of £32,553 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Blackpool at £25,400, £7,153 below it.