Adult social worker jobs in Dudley

Skills for Care recorded 75 filled social worker posts in Dudley in 2024/25, out of 100 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1% of the 7,400 filled adult social care posts in Dudley. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Dudley, only 22.3% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Dudley ranks 10th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 75 in Dudley. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Dudley workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Dudley was £19.90 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Dudley 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 Dudley: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Dudley earn a median of £35,281 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Dudley at £24,800, £10,481 below it.