Adult social worker jobs in Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled social worker posts in Somerset in 2024/25, out of 250 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1% of the 18,000 filled adult social care posts in Somerset. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Somerset, only 24.4% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Somerset ranks 6th 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 175 in Somerset. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Somerset workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 350 filled community support and outreach posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Somerset was £19.63 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Somerset 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 Somerset: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Somerset earn a median of £35,440 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Somerset at £25,400, £10,040 below it.