Senior care assistant jobs in North Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 425 filled senior care worker posts in North Somerset in 2024/25, out of 450 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 2% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in North Somerset.

The senior care worker role is 5.9% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in North Somerset. Turnover in the senior care worker role in North Somerset ran at 12.6%. New starters were 31.3% of senior care worker posts in North Somerset over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, North Somerset ranks 10th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 725 filled senior care worker posts, against 425 in North Somerset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the North Somerset workforce, the same release records 3,500 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in North Somerset was £13.05 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 North Somerset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in North Somerset earn a median of £34,838 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in North Somerset at £26,100, £8,738 below it.