Senior care assistant jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Skills for Care recorded 425 filled senior care worker posts in Stoke-on-Trent in 2024/25, out of 450 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 2.2% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Stoke-on-Trent.

The senior care worker role is 5.3% of the 8,000 filled adult social care posts in Stoke-on-Trent. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Stoke-on-Trent ran at 11.5%. New starters were 14% of senior care worker posts in Stoke-on-Trent over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 10th 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 425 in Stoke-on-Trent. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Stoke-on-Trent workforce, the same release records 4,800 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Stoke-on-Trent was £12.66 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 Stoke-on-Trent only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Stoke-on-Trent earn a median of £34,744 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Stoke-on-Trent at £25,200, £9,544 below it.