Adult social worker jobs in Gateshead

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled social worker posts in Gateshead 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 Gateshead. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Gateshead, only 25.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Gateshead ranks 5th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Gateshead. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Gateshead workforce, the same release records 10 filled occupational therapist posts, 75 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Gateshead was £20.10 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Gateshead 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 Gateshead: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Gateshead earn a median of £33,670 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Gateshead at £25,200, £8,470 below it.