residential home adult care worker
Residential home adult care workers counsel and support vulnerable adults who have physical or mental disabilities or addiction issues. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a positive living environment. They work with families to support individuals' development and meet their needs.
residential home adult care worker residential home adult care workers counsel and support vulnerable adults who have physical or mental disabilities or addiction issues. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a positive living environment. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include customer service, legal requirements in the social sector, social sciences, social justice, company policies.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £30,087 a year for Welfare and housing associate professionals n.e.c. (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £26,107 to £34,682 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 3229). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Technicians and associate professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only residential home adult care worker, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 3. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
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Frequently asked questions
What does residential home adult care worker do?
Residential home adult care workers counsel and support vulnerable adults who have physical or mental disabilities or addiction issues. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a positive living environment. They work with families to support individuals' development and meet their needs.
What skills does residential home adult care worker need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include customer service, legal requirements in the social sector, social sciences, social justice, company policies, support harmed social service users. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace residential home adult care worker?
Our AI-durability model gives residential home adult care worker a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.