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Adult social worker jobs in Bath and North East Somerset
Adult social care in Bath and North East Somerset employs people in 75 filled social worker posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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What the official data says about Bath and North East Somerset
Skills for Care recorded 75 filled social worker posts in Bath and North East Somerset in 2024/25, out of 75 social worker posts in total.
The social worker role is 1.8% of the 4,200 filled adult social care posts in Bath and North East Somerset. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Bath and North East Somerset, only 25.5% across all care roles in the area.
On filled social worker posts, Bath and North East Somerset ranks 12th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 137.5 filled social worker posts, against 75 in Bath and North East Somerset. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.
For the shape of the rest of the Bath and North East Somerset workforce, the same release records 50 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.
Reported median pay in Bath and North East Somerset was £18.03 an hour for the social worker role and about £34,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bath and North East Somerset 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 Bath and North East Somerset: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.
Full-time workers in Bath and North East Somerset earn a median of £38,040 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bath and North East Somerset at £26,600, £11,440 below it.
- Social worker, filled posts
- 75
- Social worker, median full-time annual pay
- £34,700
- Social worker, median hourly pay
- £18.03
- Social worker, posts in total
- 75
The social worker role
Adult social work is assessment and decision making under the Care Act. You work out what somebody needs, what the law says the council must do about it, and how to arrange support that the person actually recognises as their life.
Safeguarding runs through all of it, alongside mental capacity assessments, best interest decisions and the hard conversations with families who want a different answer from the one the assessment supports.
Social worker (adults) jobs in Bath and North East Somerset: common questions
How many social worker jobs are there in Bath and North East Somerset?
Skills for Care recorded 75 filled social worker posts in Bath and North East Somerset in 2024/25. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in Bath and North East Somerset.
What does a social worker earn in Bath and North East Somerset?
Median reported pay in Bath and North East Somerset was £18.03 an hour, or about £34,700 a year full time, from local authority and independent sector employers. Each advert states its own rate, and that is the figure that counts.
Do I need experience to apply for adult social worker jobs in Bath and North East Somerset?
Social Work England registration. A recognised social work degree or postgraduate qualification. Enhanced DBS check, paid for by the employer. Each advert in Bath and North East Somerset sets out what that employer asks for.