Adult social worker jobs in West Sussex

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled social worker posts in West Sussex in 2024/25, out of 300 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.2% of the 24,500 filled adult social care posts in West Sussex. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in West Sussex, only 25.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, West Sussex ranks 3rd of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 300 in West Sussex. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the West Sussex workforce, the same release records 100 filled occupational therapist posts, 350 filled community support and outreach posts and 500 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in West Sussex was £20.90 an hour for the social worker role and about £40,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in West Sussex 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 West Sussex: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in West Sussex earn a median of £37,916 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in West Sussex at £26,000, £11,916 below it.