Adult social worker jobs in Lancashire

Skills for Care recorded 475 filled social worker posts in Lancashire in 2024/25, out of 550 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.1% of the 42,000 filled adult social care posts in Lancashire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Lancashire, only 24.7% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Lancashire ranks 1st 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 475 in Lancashire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Lancashire workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 1,500 filled community support and outreach posts and 600 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Lancashire was £18.97 an hour for the social worker role and about £36,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lancashire 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 Lancashire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Lancashire earn a median of £35,779 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lancashire at £24,900, £10,879 below it.