Adult social care in London
Care assistant jobs in Tower Hamlets
Adult social care in Tower Hamlets employs people in 4,400 filled 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 4,400 filled care worker posts in Tower Hamlets in 2024/25, out of 4,600 care worker posts in total. Around 200 of those care worker posts in Tower Hamlets were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Tower Hamlets.
The care worker role is 57.9% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Tower Hamlets. Turnover in the care worker role in Tower Hamlets ran at 12.4%. New starters were 23.5% of care worker posts in Tower Hamlets over the year.
On filled care worker posts, Tower Hamlets ranks 6th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 4,400 in Tower Hamlets. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.
For the shape of the rest of the Tower Hamlets workforce, the same release records 225 filled senior care worker posts, 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 25 filled registered nurse posts.
Reported median pay in Tower Hamlets was £12.60 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,200 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.
- Care worker, filled posts
- 4,400
- All adult social care roles, vacancy rate
- 5.3%
- Care worker, median hourly pay
- £12.60
- All adult social care roles, turnover rate
- 10.3%
- Care worker, posts in total
- 4,600
- Care worker, vacant posts
- 200
- Care worker, vacancy rate
- 4.7%
- Care worker, turnover rate
- 12.4%
- Care worker, starters in the last 12 months
- 23.5%
- Care worker, median full-time annual pay
- £24,200
The care assistant role
Care assistant work is practical and personal. A shift is built around helping people wash, dress, eat, take medication and get out of the house, and around noticing the small changes that mean somebody is not themselves today.
Employers here are care homes, home care providers and supported living services. Most take people with no care background at all and train them, because attitude is harder to teach than task.
Care assistant jobs in Tower Hamlets: common questions
How many care worker jobs are there in Tower Hamlets?
Skills for Care recorded 4,400 filled care worker posts in Tower Hamlets in 2024/25, with around 200 vacant. 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 care worker earn in Tower Hamlets?
Median reported pay in Tower Hamlets was £12.60 an hour, or about £24,200 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 care assistant jobs in Tower Hamlets?
No formal qualifications needed to apply. Enhanced DBS check, paid for by the employer. Right to work in the UK. Each advert in Tower Hamlets sets out what that employer asks for.