Adult social worker jobs in Wandsworth

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled social worker posts in Wandsworth in 2024/25, out of 175 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 3.1% of the 5,700 filled adult social care posts in Wandsworth. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Wandsworth, only 20.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Wandsworth ranks 4th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 175 in Wandsworth. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Wandsworth workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wandsworth was £26.68 an hour for the social worker role and about £51,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wandsworth 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 Wandsworth: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Wandsworth earn a median of £43,035 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wandsworth at £29,000, £14,035 below it.