Senior care assistant jobs in Sandwell

Skills for Care recorded 450 filled senior care worker posts in Sandwell in 2024/25, out of 475 senior care worker posts in total. Around 10 of those senior care worker posts in Sandwell were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Sandwell.

The senior care worker role is 4.5% of the 10,000 filled adult social care posts in Sandwell. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Sandwell ran at 9.4%. New starters were 7.5% of senior care worker posts in Sandwell over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Sandwell ranks 9th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 462.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 450 in Sandwell. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Sandwell workforce, the same release records 5,700 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Sandwell was £12.51 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sandwell only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sandwell earn a median of £33,636 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sandwell at £24,400, £9,236 below it.