Adult social worker jobs in Liverpool

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled social worker posts in Liverpool in 2024/25, out of 350 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.8% of the 15,000 filled adult social care posts in Liverpool. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Liverpool, only 24.4% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Liverpool ranks 3rd 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 275 in Liverpool. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Liverpool workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Liverpool was £22.19 an hour for the social worker role and about £42,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Liverpool 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 Liverpool: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Liverpool earn a median of £38,430 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Liverpool at £25,700, £12,730 below it.