Adult social worker jobs in Wirral

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

The social worker role is 1% of the 9,600 filled adult social care posts in Wirral. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Wirral, only 22.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Wirral ranks 17th 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 Wirral. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Wirral workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wirral was £21.68 an hour for the social worker role and about £41,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wirral 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 Wirral: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Wirral earn a median of £35,483 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wirral at £25,800, £9,683 below it.