Senior care assistant jobs in Kent

Skills for Care recorded 2,500 filled senior care worker posts in Kent in 2024/25, out of 2,600 senior care worker posts in total. Around 100 of those senior care worker posts in Kent were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Kent.

The senior care worker role is 5.7% of the 44,000 filled adult social care posts in Kent. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Kent ran at 15.7%. New starters were 11.9% of senior care worker posts in Kent over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Kent ranks 1st of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 350 filled senior care worker posts, against 2,500 in Kent. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Kent workforce, the same release records 23,000 filled care worker posts, 250 filled deputy manager posts and 800 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Kent was £12.80 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kent only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Kent earn a median of £36,127 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kent at £25,300, £10,827 below it.