Care assistant jobs in Torbay

Skills for Care recorded 2,600 filled care worker posts in Torbay in 2024/25, out of 2,800 care worker posts in total. Around 150 of those care worker posts in Torbay were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Torbay.

The care worker role is 51% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Torbay. Turnover in the care worker role in Torbay ran at 36.6%. New starters were 42.3% of care worker posts in Torbay over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Torbay ranks 13th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 6,250 filled care worker posts, against 2,600 in Torbay. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Torbay workforce, the same release records 300 filled senior care worker posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Torbay was £12.17 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Torbay only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Torbay earn a median of £30,873 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Torbay at £24,900, £5,973 below it.