Care assistant jobs in Sandwell

Skills for Care recorded 5,700 filled care worker posts in Sandwell in 2024/25, out of 6,200 care worker posts in total. Around 550 of those care worker posts in Sandwell were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Sandwell.

The care worker role is 57% of the 10,000 filled adult social care posts in Sandwell. Turnover in the care worker role in Sandwell ran at 24.9%. New starters were 31% of care worker posts in Sandwell over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Sandwell ranks 7th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 5,700 in Sandwell. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Sandwell workforce, the same release records 450 filled senior care worker posts, 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 225 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Sandwell was £11.80 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 Sandwell only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sandwell earn a median of £33,636 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sandwell at £24,400, £9,236 below it.