Senior care assistant jobs in Leicestershire

Skills for Care recorded 1,000 filled senior care worker posts in Leicestershire in 2024/25, out of 1,000 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Leicestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Leicestershire.

The senior care worker role is 5.7% of the 17,500 filled adult social care posts in Leicestershire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Leicestershire ran at 14.4%. New starters were 16.6% of senior care worker posts in Leicestershire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Leicestershire ranks 4th of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 625 filled senior care worker posts, against 1,000 in Leicestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Leicestershire workforce, the same release records 9,800 filled care worker posts, 75 filled deputy manager posts and 300 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Leicestershire was £12.53 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Leicestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Leicestershire earn a median of £36,208 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leicestershire at £24,700, £11,508 below it.