Senior care assistant jobs in Barnsley

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled senior care worker posts in Barnsley in 2024/25, out of 400 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Barnsley were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Barnsley.

The senior care worker role is 5.9% of the 6,400 filled adult social care posts in Barnsley. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Barnsley ran at 13.1%. New starters were 11.6% of senior care worker posts in Barnsley over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Barnsley ranks 10th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 500 filled senior care worker posts, against 375 in Barnsley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Barnsley workforce, the same release records 3,500 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Barnsley was £12.79 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 Barnsley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Barnsley earn a median of £35,629 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barnsley at £25,300, £10,329 below it.