Adult social worker jobs in Richmond upon Thames

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled social worker posts in Richmond upon Thames in 2024/25, out of 150 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 2.7% of the 4,700 filled adult social care posts in Richmond upon Thames. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Richmond upon Thames, only 24.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Richmond upon Thames ranks 14th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 125 in Richmond upon Thames. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Richmond upon Thames workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Richmond upon Thames was £26.75 an hour for the social worker role and about £51,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Richmond upon Thames 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 Richmond upon Thames: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Richmond upon Thames earn a median of £41,037 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Richmond upon Thames at £30,100, £10,937 below it.