Senior care assistant jobs in Merton

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled senior care worker posts in Merton in 2024/25, out of 225 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 2.3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Merton.

The senior care worker role is 4.9% of the 4,600 filled adult social care posts in Merton. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Merton ran at 7.6%. New starters were 11.2% of senior care worker posts in Merton over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Merton ranks 21st of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 250 filled senior care worker posts, against 225 in Merton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Merton workforce, the same release records 2,700 filled care worker posts, 10 filled deputy manager posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Merton was £13.86 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Merton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Merton earn a median of £38,471 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Merton at £26,900, £11,571 below it.