Care assistant jobs in Sefton

Skills for Care recorded 5,400 filled care worker posts in Sefton in 2024/25, out of 6,000 care worker posts in total. Around 550 of those care worker posts in Sefton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Sefton.

The care worker role is 47% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Sefton. Turnover in the care worker role in Sefton ran at 28.4%. New starters were 25.7% of care worker posts in Sefton over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Sefton ranks 5th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 5,400 in Sefton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Sefton workforce, the same release records 600 filled senior care worker posts, 750 filled community support and outreach posts and 325 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Sefton was £11.98 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sefton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sefton earn a median of £33,028 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sefton at £25,200, £7,828 below it.