Senior care assistant jobs in Oldham

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Oldham in 2024/25, out of 275 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Oldham.

The senior care worker role is 3.5% of the 7,800 filled adult social care posts in Oldham. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Oldham ran at 5.6%. New starters were 2.9% of senior care worker posts in Oldham over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Oldham ranks 14th 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 275 in Oldham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Oldham workforce, the same release records 3,800 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Oldham was £13.19 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Oldham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Oldham earn a median of £33,860 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Oldham at £26,100, £7,760 below it.