Senior care assistant jobs in Cheshire West and Chester

Skills for Care recorded 550 filled senior care worker posts in Cheshire West and Chester in 2024/25, out of 600 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Cheshire West and Chester were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Cheshire West and Chester.

The senior care worker role is 5.5% of the 10,000 filled adult social care posts in Cheshire West and Chester. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Cheshire West and Chester ran at 16.7%. New starters were 16.8% of senior care worker posts in Cheshire West and Chester over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 5th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 312.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 550 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Cheshire West and Chester workforce, the same release records 5,200 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Cheshire West and Chester was £13.30 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cheshire West and Chester only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cheshire West and Chester earn a median of £37,198 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cheshire West and Chester at £25,800, £11,398 below it.