Adult social worker jobs in Tameside

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled social worker posts in Tameside in 2024/25, out of 125 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.9% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Tameside. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Tameside, only 23.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Tameside ranks 14th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Tameside. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Tameside workforce, the same release records 10 filled occupational therapist posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Tameside was £23.37 an hour for the social worker role and about £45,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Tameside 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 Tameside: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Tameside earn a median of £30,734 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Tameside at £26,100, £4,634 below it.