Adult social worker jobs in Newham

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled social worker posts in Newham in 2024/25, out of 125 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.8% of the 7,000 filled adult social care posts in Newham. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Newham, only 19.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Newham ranks 12th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 125 in Newham. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Newham workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 200 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Newham was £24.32 an hour for the social worker role and about £46,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Newham 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 Newham: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Newham earn a median of £44,347 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Newham at £27,000, £17,347 below it.