Adult social worker jobs in Staffordshire

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

The social worker role is 0.3% of the 23,000 filled adult social care posts in Staffordshire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Staffordshire, only 24.4% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Staffordshire ranks 14th 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 Staffordshire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Staffordshire workforce, the same release records 10 filled occupational therapist posts, 350 filled community support and outreach posts and 375 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Staffordshire was £18.50 an hour for the social worker role and about £35,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Staffordshire earn a median of £34,532 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Staffordshire at £24,900, £9,632 below it.