Adult social worker jobs in Central Bedfordshire

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

The social worker role is 2.3% of the 5,400 filled adult social care posts in Central Bedfordshire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Central Bedfordshire, only 23.2% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Central Bedfordshire ranks 6th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 125 in Central Bedfordshire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Central Bedfordshire workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Central Bedfordshire was £19.72 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Central Bedfordshire 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 Central Bedfordshire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Central Bedfordshire earn a median of £37,704 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Central Bedfordshire at £25,600, £12,104 below it.