Adult social worker jobs in Leicestershire

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled social worker posts in Leicestershire in 2024/25, out of 150 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 0.7% of the 17,500 filled adult social care posts in Leicestershire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Leicestershire, only 22.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Leicestershire ranks 6th of the 9 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 125 in Leicestershire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Leicestershire workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 600 filled community support and outreach posts and 300 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Leicestershire was £19.45 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Leicestershire earn a median of £36,208 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leicestershire at £24,700, £11,508 below it.