Senior care assistant jobs in York

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled senior care worker posts in York in 2024/25, out of 325 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in York were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in York.

The senior care worker role is 4.8% of the 6,300 filled adult social care posts in York. Turnover in the senior care worker role in York ran at 11%. New starters were 13.6% of senior care worker posts in York over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, York ranks 12th 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 300 in York. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the York workforce, the same release records 3,400 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in York was £13.71 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in York only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in York earn a median of £39,337 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in York at £25,400, £13,937 below it.