Senior care assistant jobs in Middlesbrough

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Middlesbrough in 2024/25, out of 275 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 2.3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Middlesbrough.

The senior care worker role is 3.8% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Middlesbrough. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Middlesbrough ran at 16.4%. New starters were 8.3% of senior care worker posts in Middlesbrough over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Middlesbrough ranks 7th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 275 filled senior care worker posts, against 275 in Middlesbrough. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Middlesbrough workforce, the same release records 3,100 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Middlesbrough was £13.13 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Middlesbrough only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Middlesbrough earn a median of £34,000 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Middlesbrough at £25,700, £8,300 below it.