Adult social worker jobs in Northumberland

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

The social worker role is 1.3% of the 9,500 filled adult social care posts in Northumberland. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Northumberland, only 25.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Northumberland ranks 3rd 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 125 in Northumberland. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Northumberland workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Northumberland was £20.51 an hour for the social worker role and about £39,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Northumberland 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 Northumberland: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Northumberland earn a median of £35,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Northumberland at £25,900, £9,423 below it.