Senior care assistant jobs in Barking and Dagenham

Skills for Care recorded 250 filled senior care worker posts in Barking and Dagenham in 2024/25, out of 650 senior care worker posts in total.

The senior care worker role is 3.8% of the 6,500 filled adult social care posts in Barking and Dagenham. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Barking and Dagenham ran at 10.6%. New starters were 2.6% of senior care worker posts in Barking and Dagenham over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Barking and Dagenham ranks 12th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 250 filled senior care worker posts, against 250 in Barking and Dagenham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Barking and Dagenham workforce, the same release records 3,700 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Barking and Dagenham was £12.27 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Barking and Dagenham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Barking and Dagenham: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Barking and Dagenham earn a median of £39,599 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barking and Dagenham at £25,200, £14,399 below it.