Senior care assistant jobs in Walsall

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled senior care worker posts in Walsall in 2024/25, out of 375 senior care worker posts in total. Around 10 of those senior care worker posts in Walsall were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Walsall.

The senior care worker role is 4.6% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Walsall. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Walsall ran at 11.1%. New starters were 6.7% of senior care worker posts in Walsall over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Walsall ranks 12th 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 350 in Walsall. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Walsall workforce, the same release records 4,300 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Walsall 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 Walsall only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Walsall earn a median of £34,980 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Walsall at £25,600, £9,380 below it.