Senior care assistant jobs in Thurrock

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled senior care worker posts in Thurrock in 2024/25, out of 175 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 4.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Thurrock.

The senior care worker role is 4.4% of the 4,000 filled adult social care posts in Thurrock. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Thurrock ran at 7.6%. New starters were 31.2% of senior care worker posts in Thurrock over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Thurrock ranks 11th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 400 filled senior care worker posts, against 175 in Thurrock. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

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

Reported median pay in Thurrock was £11.90 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £22,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Thurrock only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Thurrock earn a median of £40,623 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Thurrock at £25,900, £14,723 below it.