Senior care assistant jobs in Lincolnshire

Skills for Care recorded 1,400 filled senior care worker posts in Lincolnshire in 2024/25, out of 1,500 senior care worker posts in total. Around 75 of those senior care worker posts in Lincolnshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.5% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Lincolnshire.

The senior care worker role is 6.2% of the 22,500 filled adult social care posts in Lincolnshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Lincolnshire ran at 19.3%. New starters were 17.9% of senior care worker posts in Lincolnshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Lincolnshire ranks 2nd 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 1,400 in Lincolnshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Lincolnshire workforce, the same release records 13,000 filled care worker posts, 125 filled deputy manager posts and 350 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Lincolnshire was £13.02 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lincolnshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lincolnshire earn a median of £33,324 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lincolnshire at £24,900, £8,424 below it.