Adult social worker jobs in Telford and Wrekin

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled social worker posts in Telford and Wrekin in 2024/25, out of 100 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.6% of the 6,200 filled adult social care posts in Telford and Wrekin. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Telford and Wrekin, only 30.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Telford and Wrekin ranks 7th 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 100 in Telford and Wrekin. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Telford and Wrekin workforce, the same release records 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Telford and Wrekin was £25.97 an hour for the social worker role and about £50,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Telford and Wrekin 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 Telford and Wrekin: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Telford and Wrekin earn a median of £36,532 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Telford and Wrekin at £25,600, £10,932 below it.