Senior care assistant jobs in Torbay

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled senior care worker posts in Torbay in 2024/25, out of 300 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 0% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Torbay.

The senior care worker role is 5.9% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Torbay. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Torbay ran at 3.2%. New starters were 7.4% of senior care worker posts in Torbay over the year.

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

For the shape of the rest of the Torbay workforce, the same release records 2,600 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Torbay was £12.86 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Torbay only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Torbay earn a median of £30,873 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Torbay at £24,900, £5,973 below it.