Senior care assistant jobs in Norfolk

Skills for Care recorded 1,500 filled senior care worker posts in Norfolk in 2024/25, out of 1,600 senior care worker posts in total. Around 100 of those senior care worker posts in Norfolk were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.5% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Norfolk.

The senior care worker role is 5.4% of the 28,000 filled adult social care posts in Norfolk. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Norfolk ran at 20.3%. New starters were 17.5% of senior care worker posts in Norfolk over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Norfolk ranks 3rd of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 400 filled senior care worker posts, against 1,500 in Norfolk. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Norfolk workforce, the same release records 13,500 filled care worker posts, 125 filled deputy manager posts and 450 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Norfolk 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 Norfolk only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Norfolk earn a median of £35,940 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Norfolk at £26,200, £9,740 below it.