Senior care assistant jobs in Bolton

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled senior care worker posts in Bolton in 2024/25, out of 375 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.5% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Bolton.

The senior care worker role is 4.4% of the 8,500 filled adult social care posts in Bolton. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Bolton ran at 11.4%. New starters were 9.4% of senior care worker posts in Bolton over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Bolton ranks 10th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 312.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 375 in Bolton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Bolton workforce, the same release records 4,200 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Bolton was £12.71 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bolton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bolton earn a median of £33,008 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bolton at £25,300, £7,708 below it.