Care assistant jobs in Greenwich

Skills for Care recorded 3,700 filled care worker posts in Greenwich in 2024/25, out of 4,000 care worker posts in total. Around 300 of those care worker posts in Greenwich were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Greenwich.

The care worker role is 56.1% of the 6,600 filled adult social care posts in Greenwich. Turnover in the care worker role in Greenwich ran at 13.9%. New starters were 20.8% of care worker posts in Greenwich over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Greenwich ranks 15th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 3,700 in Greenwich. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Greenwich workforce, the same release records 250 filled senior care worker posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Greenwich was £11.99 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Greenwich only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Greenwich earn a median of £38,128 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Greenwich at £25,800, £12,328 below it.