Senior care assistant jobs in Westmorland and Furness

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Westmorland and Furness in 2024/25, out of 300 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 3.2% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Westmorland and Furness.

The senior care worker role is 4% of the 6,800 filled adult social care posts in Westmorland and Furness. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Westmorland and Furness ran at 8.6%. New starters were 5.1% of senior care worker posts in Westmorland and Furness over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Westmorland and Furness ranks 17th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 312.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 275 in Westmorland and Furness. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Westmorland and Furness workforce, the same release records 3,100 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Westmorland and Furness was £13.89 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Westmorland and Furness only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Westmorland and Furness earn a median of £40,529 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Westmorland and Furness at £26,100, £14,429 below it.