Adult social worker jobs in Plymouth

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

The social worker role is 0.3% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Plymouth. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Plymouth, only 19.1% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Plymouth ranks 13th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 137.5 filled social worker posts, against 25 in Plymouth. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Plymouth workforce, the same release records 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

No pay figure is published for the social worker role in Plymouth. The only local pay figure Skills for Care releases for the area is £12.75 an hour across all adult social care roles together, which is a different population and not a substitute.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate, a turnover rate, an hourly pay figure, a full-time annual pay figure for the social worker role in Plymouth: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Plymouth earn a median of £36,483 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Plymouth at £24,500, £11,983 below it.