Adult social worker jobs in Suffolk

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

The social worker role is 1.9% of the 23,500 filled adult social care posts in Suffolk. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Suffolk, only 21.7% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Suffolk ranks 3rd of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 450 in Suffolk. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Suffolk workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 425 filled community support and outreach posts and 350 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Suffolk was £19.16 an hour for the social worker role and about £36,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Suffolk 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 Suffolk: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Suffolk earn a median of £36,891 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Suffolk at £25,400, £11,491 below it.