Care assistant jobs in Cheshire West and Chester

Skills for Care recorded 5,200 filled care worker posts in Cheshire West and Chester in 2024/25, out of 5,500 care worker posts in total. Around 350 of those care worker posts in Cheshire West and Chester were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Cheshire West and Chester.

The care worker role is 52% of the 10,000 filled adult social care posts in Cheshire West and Chester. Turnover in the care worker role in Cheshire West and Chester ran at 43.6%. New starters were 46.4% of care worker posts in Cheshire West and Chester over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 6th 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 5,200 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Cheshire West and Chester workforce, the same release records 550 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 325 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Cheshire West and Chester was £12.33 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cheshire West and Chester only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cheshire West and Chester earn a median of £37,198 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cheshire West and Chester at £25,800, £11,398 below it.