Senior care assistant jobs in Bury

Skills for Care recorded 250 filled senior care worker posts in Bury in 2024/25, out of 250 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.4% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Bury.

The senior care worker role is 4.8% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Bury. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Bury ran at 13.4%. New starters were 14.4% of senior care worker posts in Bury over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Bury ranks 18th 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 250 in Bury. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Bury workforce, the same release records 2,500 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Bury was £13.02 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bury only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bury earn a median of £34,968 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bury at £26,000, £8,968 below it.