Senior care assistant jobs in Sheffield

Skills for Care recorded 750 filled senior care worker posts in Sheffield in 2024/25, out of 750 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0.4% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Sheffield.

The senior care worker role is 4.4% of the 17,000 filled adult social care posts in Sheffield. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Sheffield ran at 12.1%. New starters were 9.4% of senior care worker posts in Sheffield over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Sheffield ranks 5th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 500 filled senior care worker posts, against 750 in Sheffield. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Sheffield workforce, the same release records 9,100 filled care worker posts, 75 filled deputy manager posts and 225 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Sheffield was £12.92 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sheffield only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sheffield earn a median of £37,074 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sheffield at £25,300, £11,774 below it.