Deputy care home manager jobs in Dorset

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled deputy manager posts in Dorset in 2024/25, out of 50 deputy manager posts in total. That is a 1.5% vacancy rate for the deputy manager role in Dorset.

The deputy manager role is 0.5% of the 10,500 filled adult social care posts in Dorset. Turnover in the deputy manager role in Dorset ran at 15.2%. New starters were 18.3% of deputy manager posts in Dorset over the year.

On filled deputy manager posts, Dorset ranks 9th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 50 filled deputy manager posts, against 50 in Dorset. Across the 145 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Dorset workforce, the same release records 175 filled registered manager posts, 700 filled senior care worker posts and 5,200 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in Dorset was £16.20 an hour for the deputy manager role and about £31,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Dorset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Dorset earn a median of £35,311 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Dorset at £25,800, £9,511 below it.