Deputy care home manager jobs in Wakefield

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled deputy manager posts in Wakefield in 2024/25, out of 50 deputy manager posts in total. That is a 2.5% vacancy rate for the deputy manager role in Wakefield.

The deputy manager role is 0.5% of the 9,600 filled adult social care posts in Wakefield. Turnover in the deputy manager role in Wakefield ran at 14.4%. New starters were 22.5% of deputy manager posts in Wakefield over the year.

On filled deputy manager posts, Wakefield ranks 8th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 50 filled deputy manager posts, against 50 in Wakefield. Across the 145 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Wakefield workforce, the same release records 175 filled registered manager posts, 500 filled senior care worker posts and 4,900 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in Wakefield was £15.79 an hour for the deputy manager role and about £30,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wakefield only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wakefield earn a median of £35,838 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wakefield at £25,300, £10,538 below it.