Senior care assistant jobs in Sunderland

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled senior care worker posts in Sunderland in 2024/25, out of 400 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Sunderland were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.2% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Sunderland.

The senior care worker role is 4.9% of the 7,700 filled adult social care posts in Sunderland. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Sunderland ran at 6.8%. New starters were 11.1% of senior care worker posts in Sunderland over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Sunderland ranks 4th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 275 filled senior care worker posts, against 375 in Sunderland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Sunderland workforce, the same release records 4,000 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Sunderland was £12.86 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 Sunderland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sunderland earn a median of £32,015 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sunderland at £25,700, £6,315 below it.