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Care assistant jobs in Doncaster

Adult social care in Doncaster employs people in 5,000 filled care worker posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.

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Published figures for Doncaster

What the official data says about Doncaster

Skills for Care recorded 5,000 filled care worker posts in Doncaster in 2024/25, out of 6,000 care worker posts in total.

The care worker role is 56.8% of the 8,800 filled adult social care posts in Doncaster. Turnover in the care worker role in Doncaster ran at 27.7%. New starters were 29% of care worker posts in Doncaster over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Doncaster ranks 7th 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 5,000 in Doncaster. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Doncaster workforce, the same release records 500 filled senior care worker posts, 200 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Doncaster was £12.13 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Doncaster only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate for the care worker role in Doncaster: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Doncaster earn a median of £33,802 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Doncaster at £24,800, £9,002 below it.

Care worker, filled posts
5,000
Care worker, median hourly pay
£12.13
All adult social care roles, turnover rate
20.7%
Care worker, posts in total
6,000
Care worker, turnover rate
27.7%
Care worker, starters in the last 12 months
29%
Care worker, median full-time annual pay
£23,300

The care assistant role

Care assistant work is practical and personal. A shift is built around helping people wash, dress, eat, take medication and get out of the house, and around noticing the small changes that mean somebody is not themselves today.

Employers here are care homes, home care providers and supported living services. Most take people with no care background at all and train them, because attitude is harder to teach than task.

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Care assistant jobs in Doncaster: common questions

How many care worker jobs are there in Doncaster?

Skills for Care recorded 5,000 filled care worker posts in Doncaster in 2024/25. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in Doncaster.

What does a care worker earn in Doncaster?

Median reported pay in Doncaster was £12.13 an hour, or about £23,300 a year full time, from local authority and independent sector employers. Each advert states its own rate, and that is the figure that counts.

Do I need experience to apply for care assistant jobs in Doncaster?

No formal qualifications needed to apply. Enhanced DBS check, paid for by the employer. Right to work in the UK. Each advert in Doncaster sets out what that employer asks for.