Senior care assistant jobs in Plymouth

Skills for Care recorded 450 filled senior care worker posts in Plymouth in 2024/25, out of 475 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.7% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Plymouth.

The senior care worker role is 5.9% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Plymouth. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Plymouth ran at 10.3%. New starters were 13.6% of senior care worker posts in Plymouth over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Plymouth ranks 9th 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 450 in Plymouth. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Plymouth workforce, the same release records 4,100 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Plymouth was £12.69 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Plymouth only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Plymouth earn a median of £36,483 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Plymouth at £24,500, £11,983 below it.