Care assistant jobs in Calderdale

Skills for Care recorded 2,700 filled care worker posts in Calderdale in 2024/25, out of 2,900 care worker posts in total. Around 175 of those care worker posts in Calderdale were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Calderdale.

The care worker role is 48.2% of the 5,600 filled adult social care posts in Calderdale. Turnover in the care worker role in Calderdale ran at 27.1%. New starters were 31.4% of care worker posts in Calderdale over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Calderdale ranks 13th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 4,900 filled care worker posts, against 2,700 in Calderdale. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Calderdale workforce, the same release records 225 filled senior care worker posts, 275 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Calderdale was £12.20 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Calderdale only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Calderdale earn a median of £34,966 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Calderdale at £25,300, £9,666 below it.