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Senior care assistant jobs in Tower Hamlets
Adult social care in Tower Hamlets employs people in 225 filled senior care worker posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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Published figures for Tower Hamlets
What the official data says about Tower Hamlets
Skills for Care recorded 225 filled senior care worker posts in Tower Hamlets in 2024/25, out of 225 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Tower Hamlets.
The senior care worker role is 3% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Tower Hamlets. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Tower Hamlets ran at 4.9%. New starters were 6.9% of senior care worker posts in Tower Hamlets over the year.
On filled senior care worker posts, Tower Hamlets ranks 22nd of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 250 filled senior care worker posts, against 225 in Tower Hamlets. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.
For the shape of the rest of the Tower Hamlets workforce, the same release records 4,400 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.
Reported median pay in Tower Hamlets was £13.31 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Tower Hamlets only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.
Full-time workers in Tower Hamlets earn a median of £66,686 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Tower Hamlets at £27,700, £38,986 below it.
- Senior care worker, filled posts
- 225
- Senior care worker, median hourly pay
- £13.31
- Care worker, median hourly pay
- £12.60
- Senior care worker, posts in total
- 225
- Senior care worker, vacancy rate
- 0%
- Senior care worker, turnover rate
- 4.9%
- Senior care worker, starters in the last 12 months
- 6.9%
- Senior care worker, median full-time annual pay
- £25,600
The senior care assistant role
A senior care assistant runs the shift. You still deliver care, but you also hold the medication trolley, allocate the floor, handle the family who arrives upset and decide when something needs escalating to the manager or to a GP.
It is the first step where accountability moves from your own practice to other people's. Most seniors come up through a care assistant role in the same service rather than arriving from outside.
Senior care assistant jobs in Tower Hamlets: common questions
How many senior care worker jobs are there in Tower Hamlets?
Skills for Care recorded 225 filled senior care worker posts in Tower Hamlets in 2024/25. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in Tower Hamlets.
What does a senior care worker earn in Tower Hamlets?
Median reported pay in Tower Hamlets was £13.31 an hour, or about £25,600 a year full time, from local authority and independent sector employers. Each advert states its own rate, and that is the figure that counts.
Do I need experience to apply for senior care assistant jobs in Tower Hamlets?
Usually a year or more in a care assistant role. Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care, or working towards it. Medication administration training. Each advert in Tower Hamlets sets out what that employer asks for.