Adult social worker jobs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled social worker posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2024/25, out of 225 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.5% of the 13,000 filled adult social care posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, only 26.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 2nd of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 137.5 filled social worker posts, against 200 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 400 filled community support and outreach posts and 225 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole was £20.24 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate, a turnover rate for the social worker role in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole earn a median of £37,241 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at £25,700, £11,541 below it.