Adult social worker jobs in West Berkshire

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled social worker posts in West Berkshire in 2024/25, out of 50 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.4% of the 3,500 filled adult social care posts in West Berkshire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in West Berkshire, only 18.4% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, West Berkshire ranks 18th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 50 in West Berkshire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the West Berkshire workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 50 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in West Berkshire was £21.78 an hour for the social worker role and about £41,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in West Berkshire 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 West Berkshire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in West Berkshire earn a median of £42,135 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in West Berkshire at £26,400, £15,735 below it.