Adult social worker jobs in Lincolnshire

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

The social worker role is 0.6% of the 22,500 filled adult social care posts in Lincolnshire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Lincolnshire, only 30.2% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Lincolnshire ranks 7th 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 Lincolnshire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Lincolnshire workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 500 filled community support and outreach posts and 350 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Lincolnshire was £19.11 an hour for the social worker role and about £36,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Lincolnshire earn a median of £33,324 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lincolnshire at £24,900, £8,424 below it.