Adult social worker jobs in Nottinghamshire

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled social worker posts in Nottinghamshire in 2024/25, out of 450 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.3% of the 27,000 filled adult social care posts in Nottinghamshire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Nottinghamshire, only 24.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Nottinghamshire ranks 2nd 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 350 in Nottinghamshire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Nottinghamshire workforce, the same release records 150 filled occupational therapist posts, 950 filled community support and outreach posts and 425 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Nottinghamshire was £20.65 an hour for the social worker role and about £39,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Nottinghamshire earn a median of £33,751 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Nottinghamshire at £25,000, £8,751 below it.