Senior care assistant jobs in Portsmouth

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled senior care worker posts in Portsmouth in 2024/25, out of 200 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Portsmouth.

The senior care worker role is 4.2% of the 4,800 filled adult social care posts in Portsmouth. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Portsmouth ran at 6%. New starters were 2.7% of senior care worker posts in Portsmouth over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Portsmouth ranks 16th 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 200 in Portsmouth. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Portsmouth workforce, the same release records 2,600 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Portsmouth was £12.68 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 Portsmouth only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Portsmouth earn a median of £38,815 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Portsmouth at £26,000, £12,815 below it.