Senior care assistant jobs in Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 1,100 filled senior care worker posts in Somerset in 2024/25, out of 1,100 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Somerset were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 1.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Somerset.

The senior care worker role is 6.1% of the 18,000 filled adult social care posts in Somerset. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Somerset ran at 9.7%. New starters were 14.5% of senior care worker posts in Somerset over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Somerset ranks 3rd of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 725 filled senior care worker posts, against 1,100 in Somerset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Somerset workforce, the same release records 9,200 filled care worker posts, 75 filled deputy manager posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

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

Full-time workers in Somerset earn a median of £35,440 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Somerset at £25,400, £10,040 below it.