Deputy care home manager jobs in Sandwell

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled deputy manager posts in Sandwell in 2024/25, out of 50 deputy manager posts in total. That is a 1.2% vacancy rate for the deputy manager role in Sandwell.

The deputy manager role is 0.5% of the 10,000 filled adult social care posts in Sandwell. Turnover in the deputy manager role in Sandwell ran at 1.6%. New starters were 5% of deputy manager posts in Sandwell over the year.

On filled deputy manager posts, Sandwell ranks 6th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 50 filled deputy manager posts, against 50 in Sandwell. Across the 145 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Sandwell workforce, the same release records 175 filled registered manager posts, 450 filled senior care worker posts and 5,700 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in Sandwell was £15.61 an hour for the deputy manager role and about £30,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sandwell only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sandwell earn a median of £33,636 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sandwell at £24,400, £9,236 below it.