Adult social worker jobs in Kirklees

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled social worker posts in Kirklees in 2024/25, out of 175 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.5% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Kirklees. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Kirklees, only 21.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Kirklees ranks 7th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 175 in Kirklees. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Kirklees workforce, the same release records 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 200 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Kirklees was £20.00 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kirklees 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 Kirklees: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Kirklees earn a median of £33,613 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kirklees at £25,000, £8,613 below it.