Senior care assistant jobs in Redcar and Cleveland

Skills for Care recorded 250 filled senior care worker posts in Redcar and Cleveland in 2024/25, out of 250 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.7% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Redcar and Cleveland.

The senior care worker role is 6.1% of the 4,100 filled adult social care posts in Redcar and Cleveland. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Redcar and Cleveland ran at 4%. New starters were 7.9% of senior care worker posts in Redcar and Cleveland over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Redcar and Cleveland ranks 9th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 275 filled senior care worker posts, against 250 in Redcar and Cleveland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Redcar and Cleveland workforce, the same release records 2,100 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 50 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Redcar and Cleveland was £12.72 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Redcar and Cleveland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Redcar and Cleveland earn a median of £35,278 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Redcar and Cleveland at £24,900, £10,378 below it.