Adult social worker jobs in Cheshire West and Chester

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled social worker posts in Cheshire West and Chester in 2024/25, out of 125 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.3% of the 10,000 filled adult social care posts in Cheshire West and Chester. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Cheshire West and Chester, only 35.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 9th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 125 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Cheshire West and Chester workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Cheshire West and Chester was £19.45 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cheshire West and Chester 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 Cheshire West and Chester: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Cheshire West and Chester earn a median of £37,198 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cheshire West and Chester at £25,800, £11,398 below it.