Care assistant jobs in Lewisham

Skills for Care recorded 3,700 filled care worker posts in Lewisham in 2024/25, out of 3,800 care worker posts in total. Around 150 of those care worker posts in Lewisham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Lewisham.

The care worker role is 54.4% of the 6,800 filled adult social care posts in Lewisham. Turnover in the care worker role in Lewisham ran at 15.8%. New starters were 25.3% of care worker posts in Lewisham over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Lewisham ranks 16th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 3,700 in Lewisham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Lewisham workforce, the same release records 275 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Lewisham was £13.09 an hour for the care worker role and about £25,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lewisham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lewisham earn a median of £42,962 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lewisham at £27,600, £15,362 below it.