Senior care assistant jobs in Cornwall

Skills for Care recorded 950 filled senior care worker posts in Cornwall in 2024/25, out of 1,000 senior care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those senior care worker posts in Cornwall were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Cornwall.

The senior care worker role is 5.4% of the 17,500 filled adult social care posts in Cornwall. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Cornwall ran at 19.7%. New starters were 15.1% of senior care worker posts in Cornwall over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Cornwall ranks 4th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 725 filled senior care worker posts, against 950 in Cornwall. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Cornwall workforce, the same release records 8,600 filled care worker posts, 75 filled deputy manager posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Cornwall was £13.55 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cornwall only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cornwall earn a median of £33,889 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cornwall at £25,800, £8,089 below it.