Senior care assistant jobs in Lewisham

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Lewisham in 2024/25, out of 275 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 3.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Lewisham.

The senior care worker role is 4% of the 6,800 filled adult social care posts in Lewisham. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Lewisham ran at 14.4%. New starters were 14.8% of senior care worker posts in Lewisham over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Lewisham ranks 11th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 250 filled senior care worker posts, against 275 in Lewisham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Lewisham workforce, the same release records 3,700 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

No pay figure is published for the senior care worker role in Lewisham. The only local pay figure Skills for Care releases for the area is £14.32 an hour across all adult social care roles together, which is a different population and not a substitute.

Skills for Care withholds an hourly pay figure, a full-time annual pay figure for the senior care worker role in Lewisham: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Lewisham earn a median of £42,962 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lewisham at £27,600, £15,362 below it.