Senior care assistant jobs in Bedford

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled senior care worker posts in Bedford in 2024/25, out of 350 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Bedford.

The senior care worker role is 6.3% of the 5,600 filled adult social care posts in Bedford. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Bedford ran at 12.8%. New starters were 19.8% of senior care worker posts in Bedford over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Bedford ranks 8th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 400 filled senior care worker posts, against 350 in Bedford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Bedford workforce, the same release records 3,300 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Bedford was £12.96 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bedford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bedford earn a median of £37,994 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bedford at £25,000, £12,994 below it.