Senior care assistant jobs in Dudley

Skills for Care recorded 450 filled senior care worker posts in Dudley in 2024/25, out of 475 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Dudley were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.9% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Dudley.

The senior care worker role is 6.1% of the 7,400 filled adult social care posts in Dudley. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Dudley ran at 11.9%. New starters were 17.7% of senior care worker posts in Dudley over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Dudley ranks 8th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 462.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 450 in Dudley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Dudley workforce, the same release records 3,900 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Dudley 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 Dudley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Dudley earn a median of £35,281 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Dudley at £24,800, £10,481 below it.