Senior care assistant jobs in Lancashire

Skills for Care recorded 2,100 filled senior care worker posts in Lancashire in 2024/25, out of 2,100 senior care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those senior care worker posts in Lancashire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Lancashire.

The senior care worker role is 5% of the 42,000 filled adult social care posts in Lancashire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Lancashire ran at 14.2%. New starters were 14.5% of senior care worker posts in Lancashire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Lancashire ranks 1st 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 2,100 in Lancashire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Lancashire workforce, the same release records 21,500 filled care worker posts, 175 filled deputy manager posts and 600 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Lancashire was £12.82 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lancashire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lancashire earn a median of £35,779 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lancashire at £24,900, £10,879 below it.