Senior care assistant jobs in Cumberland

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled senior care worker posts in Cumberland in 2024/25, out of 375 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Cumberland were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Cumberland.

The senior care worker role is 4.6% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Cumberland. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Cumberland ran at 15.8%. New starters were 7.3% of senior care worker posts in Cumberland over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Cumberland ranks 11th 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 350 in Cumberland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Cumberland workforce, the same release records 3,400 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Cumberland was £13.51 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cumberland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cumberland earn a median of £42,808 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cumberland at £25,800, £17,008 below it.