Care assistant jobs in Worcestershire

Skills for Care recorded 8,700 filled care worker posts in Worcestershire in 2024/25, out of 9,200 care worker posts in total. Around 500 of those care worker posts in Worcestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Worcestershire.

The care worker role is 56.1% of the 15,500 filled adult social care posts in Worcestershire. Turnover in the care worker role in Worcestershire ran at 29.1%. New starters were 41.3% of care worker posts in Worcestershire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Worcestershire ranks 4th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 8,700 in Worcestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Worcestershire workforce, the same release records 1,000 filled senior care worker posts, 275 filled community support and outreach posts and 450 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Worcestershire was £12.12 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Worcestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Worcestershire earn a median of £36,521 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Worcestershire at £25,300, £11,221 below it.