Adult social worker jobs in Lambeth

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled social worker posts in Lambeth in 2024/25, out of 175 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.9% of the 8,000 filled adult social care posts in Lambeth. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Lambeth, only 16.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Lambeth ranks 8th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 150 in Lambeth. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Lambeth workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Lambeth 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 Lambeth 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 Lambeth: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Lambeth earn a median of £48,690 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lambeth at £26,800, £21,890 below it.