Senior care assistant jobs in Staffordshire

Skills for Care recorded 1,300 filled senior care worker posts in Staffordshire in 2024/25, out of 1,500 senior care worker posts in total. Around 175 of those senior care worker posts in Staffordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11.4% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Staffordshire.

The senior care worker role is 5.7% of the 23,000 filled adult social care posts in Staffordshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Staffordshire ran at 18.1%. New starters were 14.3% of senior care worker posts in Staffordshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Staffordshire ranks 2nd of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 462.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 1,300 in Staffordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Staffordshire workforce, the same release records 12,500 filled care worker posts, 125 filled deputy manager posts and 375 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Staffordshire was £12.77 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Staffordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Staffordshire earn a median of £34,532 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Staffordshire at £24,900, £9,632 below it.