Deputy care home manager jobs in East Sussex

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled deputy manager posts in East Sussex in 2024/25, out of 100 deputy manager posts in total. That is a 1.7% vacancy rate for the deputy manager role in East Sussex.

The deputy manager role is 0.5% of the 19,000 filled adult social care posts in East Sussex. Turnover in the deputy manager role in East Sussex ran at 9.3%. New starters were 6.1% of deputy manager posts in East Sussex over the year.

On filled deputy manager posts, East Sussex ranks 5th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 25 filled deputy manager posts, against 100 in East Sussex. Across the 145 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the East Sussex workforce, the same release records 325 filled registered manager posts, 1,200 filled senior care worker posts and 8,600 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in East Sussex was £16.07 an hour for the deputy manager role and about £30,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in East Sussex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in East Sussex earn a median of £35,557 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in East Sussex at £26,500, £9,057 below it.