Care assistant jobs in Redcar and Cleveland

Skills for Care recorded 2,100 filled care worker posts in Redcar and Cleveland in 2024/25, out of 2,200 care worker posts in total. Around 175 of those care worker posts in Redcar and Cleveland were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Redcar and Cleveland.

The care worker role is 51.2% of the 4,100 filled adult social care posts in Redcar and Cleveland. Turnover in the care worker role in Redcar and Cleveland ran at 21%. New starters were 28.2% of care worker posts in Redcar and Cleveland over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Redcar and Cleveland ranks 9th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 3,300 filled care worker posts, against 2,100 in Redcar and Cleveland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Redcar and Cleveland workforce, the same release records 250 filled senior care worker posts, 75 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Redcar and Cleveland was £11.79 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Redcar and Cleveland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Redcar and Cleveland earn a median of £35,278 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Redcar and Cleveland at £24,900, £10,378 below it.