Senior care assistant jobs in Knowsley

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled senior care worker posts in Knowsley in 2024/25, out of 150 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Knowsley.

The senior care worker role is 2.9% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Knowsley. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Knowsley ran at 6.2%. New starters were 6.2% of senior care worker posts in Knowsley over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Knowsley ranks 23rd 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 150 in Knowsley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Knowsley workforce, the same release records 2,100 filled care worker posts, 10 filled deputy manager posts and 50 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Knowsley was £12.75 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Knowsley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Knowsley earn a median of £39,064 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Knowsley at £25,800, £13,264 below it.