Senior care assistant jobs in Brighton and Hove

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled senior care worker posts in Brighton and Hove in 2024/25, out of 325 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Brighton and Hove.

The senior care worker role is 4.5% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Brighton and Hove. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Brighton and Hove ran at 16.2%. New starters were 4.5% of senior care worker posts in Brighton and Hove over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Brighton and Hove ranks 11th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 350 filled senior care worker posts, against 325 in Brighton and Hove. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Brighton and Hove workforce, the same release records 3,700 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Brighton and Hove was £12.86 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Brighton and Hove only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Brighton and Hove earn a median of £39,137 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Brighton and Hove at £26,300, £12,837 below it.