Adult social care in North West
Senior care assistant jobs in St. Helens
Adult social care in St. Helens employs people in 225 filled senior care worker posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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What the official data says about St. Helens
Skills for Care recorded 225 filled senior care worker posts in St. Helens in 2024/25, out of 250 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 4.3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in St. Helens.
The senior care worker role is 4.1% of the 5,500 filled adult social care posts in St. Helens. Turnover in the senior care worker role in St. Helens ran at 26.4%. New starters were 18.4% of senior care worker posts in St. Helens over the year.
On filled senior care worker posts, St. Helens ranks 20th 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 225 in St. Helens. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.
For the shape of the rest of the St. Helens workforce, the same release records 2,900 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.
Reported median pay in St. Helens was £12.78 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in St. Helens only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.
Full-time workers in St. Helens earn a median of £33,379 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in St. Helens at £24,900, £8,479 below it.
- Senior care worker, filled posts
- 225
- Senior care worker, median hourly pay
- £12.78
- Care worker, median hourly pay
- £11.94
- Senior care worker, posts in total
- 250
- Senior care worker, vacancy rate
- 4.3%
- Senior care worker, turnover rate
- 26.4%
- Senior care worker, starters in the last 12 months
- 18.4%
- Senior care worker, median full-time annual pay
- £24,600
The senior care assistant role
A senior care assistant runs the shift. You still deliver care, but you also hold the medication trolley, allocate the floor, handle the family who arrives upset and decide when something needs escalating to the manager or to a GP.
It is the first step where accountability moves from your own practice to other people's. Most seniors come up through a care assistant role in the same service rather than arriving from outside.
Senior care assistant jobs in St. Helens: common questions
How many senior care worker jobs are there in St. Helens?
Skills for Care recorded 225 filled senior care worker posts in St. Helens in 2024/25. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in St. Helens.
What does a senior care worker earn in St. Helens?
Median reported pay in St. Helens was £12.78 an hour, or about £24,600 a year full time, from local authority and independent sector employers. Each advert states its own rate, and that is the figure that counts.
Do I need experience to apply for senior care assistant jobs in St. Helens?
Usually a year or more in a care assistant role. Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care, or working towards it. Medication administration training. Each advert in St. Helens sets out what that employer asks for.