Adult social worker jobs in Brighton and Hove

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled social worker posts in Brighton and Hove in 2024/25, out of 150 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 2.1% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Brighton and Hove. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Brighton and Hove, only 25.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Brighton and Hove ranks 5th 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 150 in Brighton and Hove. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Brighton and Hove workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Brighton and Hove was £20.26 an hour for the social worker role and about £39,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Brighton and Hove 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 Brighton and Hove: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Brighton and Hove earn a median of £39,137 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Brighton and Hove at £26,300, £12,837 below it.