Senior care assistant jobs in Wirral

Skills for Care recorded 475 filled senior care worker posts in Wirral in 2024/25, out of 500 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Wirral were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.7% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Wirral.

The senior care worker role is 4.9% of the 9,600 filled adult social care posts in Wirral. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Wirral ran at 5.2%. New starters were 19.6% of senior care worker posts in Wirral over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Wirral ranks 7th 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 475 in Wirral. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Wirral workforce, the same release records 4,500 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wirral was £12.84 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wirral only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wirral earn a median of £35,483 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wirral at £25,800, £9,683 below it.