Adult social worker jobs in South Gloucestershire

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled social worker posts in South Gloucestershire in 2024/25, out of 150 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.3% of the 9,300 filled adult social care posts in South Gloucestershire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in South Gloucestershire, only 17.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, South Gloucestershire ranks 8th 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 125 in South Gloucestershire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the South Gloucestershire workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in South Gloucestershire was £20.62 an hour for the social worker role and about £39,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in South Gloucestershire 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 South Gloucestershire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in South Gloucestershire earn a median of £42,267 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in South Gloucestershire at £26,400, £15,867 below it.