Senior care assistant jobs in Gloucestershire

Skills for Care recorded 1,300 filled senior care worker posts in Gloucestershire in 2024/25, out of 1,300 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Gloucestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Gloucestershire.

The senior care worker role is 6.3% of the 20,500 filled adult social care posts in Gloucestershire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Gloucestershire ran at 19.6%. New starters were 6.7% of senior care worker posts in Gloucestershire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Gloucestershire ranks 2nd 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 1,300 in Gloucestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Gloucestershire workforce, the same release records 12,000 filled care worker posts, 100 filled deputy manager posts and 350 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Gloucestershire was £13.73 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 Gloucestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Gloucestershire earn a median of £37,598 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Gloucestershire at £25,700, £11,898 below it.