Senior care assistant jobs in South Gloucestershire

Skills for Care recorded 425 filled senior care worker posts in South Gloucestershire in 2024/25, out of 450 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in South Gloucestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.9% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in South Gloucestershire.

The senior care worker role is 4.6% of the 9,300 filled adult social care posts in South Gloucestershire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in South Gloucestershire ran at 7.4%. New starters were 6.8% of senior care worker posts in South Gloucestershire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, South Gloucestershire ranks 11th 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 South Gloucestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the South Gloucestershire workforce, the same release records 4,700 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in South Gloucestershire was £13.40 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in South Gloucestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in South Gloucestershire earn a median of £42,267 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in South Gloucestershire at £26,400, £15,867 below it.