Senior care assistant jobs in Rotherham

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled senior care worker posts in Rotherham in 2024/25, out of 375 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 2% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Rotherham.

The senior care worker role is 4.7% of the 7,900 filled adult social care posts in Rotherham. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Rotherham ran at 8.4%. New starters were 20.6% of senior care worker posts in Rotherham over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Rotherham ranks 11th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 500 filled senior care worker posts, against 375 in Rotherham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Rotherham workforce, the same release records 4,600 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Rotherham was £12.59 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Rotherham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Rotherham earn a median of £33,419 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Rotherham at £25,100, £8,319 below it.