Adult social worker jobs in Dorset

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled social worker posts in Dorset in 2024/25, out of 175 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.4% of the 10,500 filled adult social care posts in Dorset. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Dorset, only 34.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Dorset ranks 7th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 137.5 filled social worker posts, against 150 in Dorset. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Dorset workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 450 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Dorset was £21.26 an hour for the social worker role and about £40,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Dorset 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 Dorset: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Dorset earn a median of £35,311 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Dorset at £25,800, £9,511 below it.