Senior care assistant jobs in Central Bedfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Central Bedfordshire in 2024/25, out of 300 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 2.1% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Central Bedfordshire.

The senior care worker role is 5.1% of the 5,400 filled adult social care posts in Central Bedfordshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Central Bedfordshire ran at 7.8%. New starters were 15.5% of senior care worker posts in Central Bedfordshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Central Bedfordshire ranks 9th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 400 filled senior care worker posts, against 275 in Central Bedfordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Central Bedfordshire workforce, the same release records 2,900 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Central Bedfordshire was £12.60 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Central Bedfordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Central Bedfordshire earn a median of £37,704 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Central Bedfordshire at £25,600, £12,104 below it.