Adult social worker jobs in Bedford

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

The social worker role is 0.9% of the 5,600 filled adult social care posts in Bedford. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Bedford, only 26.4% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Bedford ranks 9th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 50 in Bedford. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Bedford workforce, the same release records 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Bedford was £23.54 an hour for the social worker role and about £45,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bedford 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 Bedford: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Bedford earn a median of £37,994 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bedford at £25,000, £12,994 below it.