Deputy care home manager jobs in West Sussex

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled deputy manager posts in West Sussex in 2024/25, out of 150 deputy manager posts in total. That is a 0.9% vacancy rate for the deputy manager role in West Sussex.

The deputy manager role is 0.6% of the 24,500 filled adult social care posts in West Sussex. Turnover in the deputy manager role in West Sussex ran at 15.2%. New starters were 13.1% of deputy manager posts in West Sussex over the year.

On filled deputy manager posts, West Sussex ranks 4th 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 150 in West Sussex. Across the 145 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the West Sussex workforce, the same release records 500 filled registered manager posts, 1,600 filled senior care worker posts and 13,000 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in West Sussex was £16.96 an hour for the deputy manager role and about £32,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in West Sussex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in West Sussex earn a median of £37,916 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in West Sussex at £26,000, £11,916 below it.