Senior care assistant jobs in Oxfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 1,200 filled senior care worker posts in Oxfordshire in 2024/25, out of 1,200 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Oxfordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Oxfordshire.

The senior care worker role is 6.3% of the 19,000 filled adult social care posts in Oxfordshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Oxfordshire ran at 19.5%. New starters were 12.6% of senior care worker posts in Oxfordshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Oxfordshire ranks 6th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 350 filled senior care worker posts, against 1,200 in Oxfordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Oxfordshire workforce, the same release records 9,600 filled care worker posts, 100 filled deputy manager posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Oxfordshire was £13.46 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Oxfordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Oxfordshire earn a median of £42,951 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Oxfordshire at £26,700, £16,251 below it.