Senior care assistant jobs in East Sussex

Skills for Care recorded 1,200 filled senior care worker posts in East Sussex in 2024/25, out of 1,200 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in East Sussex were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.9% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in East Sussex.

The senior care worker role is 6.3% of the 19,000 filled adult social care posts in East Sussex. Turnover in the senior care worker role in East Sussex ran at 20.1%. New starters were 23.4% of senior care worker posts in East Sussex over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, East Sussex ranks 5th 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 1,200 in East Sussex. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the East Sussex workforce, the same release records 8,600 filled care worker posts, 100 filled deputy manager posts and 325 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in East Sussex was £13.47 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in East Sussex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in East Sussex earn a median of £35,557 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in East Sussex at £26,500, £9,057 below it.