Deputy care home manager jobs in Suffolk

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled deputy manager posts in Suffolk in 2024/25, out of 125 deputy manager posts in total. That is a 1.6% vacancy rate for the deputy manager role in Suffolk.

The deputy manager role is 0.5% of the 23,500 filled adult social care posts in Suffolk. Turnover in the deputy manager role in Suffolk ran at 7.7%. New starters were 8.8% of deputy manager posts in Suffolk over the year.

On filled deputy manager posts, Suffolk ranks 4th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 25 filled deputy manager posts, against 125 in Suffolk. Across the 145 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Suffolk workforce, the same release records 350 filled registered manager posts, 1,300 filled senior care worker posts and 12,500 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in Suffolk was £15.47 an hour for the deputy manager role and about £29,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Suffolk only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Suffolk earn a median of £36,891 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Suffolk at £25,400, £11,491 below it.