Senior care assistant jobs in Kirklees

Skills for Care recorded 600 filled senior care worker posts in Kirklees in 2024/25, out of 600 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Kirklees.

The senior care worker role is 5.2% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Kirklees. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Kirklees ran at 12.6%. New starters were 14.4% of senior care worker posts in Kirklees over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Kirklees ranks 6th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 500 filled senior care worker posts, against 600 in Kirklees. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Kirklees workforce, the same release records 5,800 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 200 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Kirklees was £13.03 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kirklees only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Kirklees earn a median of £33,613 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kirklees at £25,000, £8,613 below it.