Adult social worker jobs in Norfolk

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

The social worker role is 2% of the 28,000 filled adult social care posts in Norfolk. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Norfolk, only 20.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Norfolk ranks 2nd 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 550 in Norfolk. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Norfolk workforce, the same release records 100 filled occupational therapist posts, 350 filled community support and outreach posts and 450 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Norfolk was £19.89 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Norfolk 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 Norfolk: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Norfolk earn a median of £35,940 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Norfolk at £26,200, £9,740 below it.