Senior care assistant jobs in Hertfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 1,600 filled senior care worker posts in Hertfordshire in 2024/25, out of 1,700 senior care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those senior care worker posts in Hertfordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.9% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Hertfordshire.

The senior care worker role is 4.7% of the 34,000 filled adult social care posts in Hertfordshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Hertfordshire ran at 16.1%. New starters were 11.7% of senior care worker posts in Hertfordshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Hertfordshire ranks 2nd 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 1,600 in Hertfordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Hertfordshire workforce, the same release records 19,000 filled care worker posts, 225 filled deputy manager posts and 550 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Hertfordshire was £13.02 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hertfordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hertfordshire earn a median of £42,775 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hertfordshire at £25,900, £16,875 below it.