Adult social worker jobs in South Tyneside

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled social worker posts in South Tyneside in 2024/25, out of 50 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.5% of the 3,400 filled adult social care posts in South Tyneside. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in South Tyneside, only 27.3% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, South Tyneside ranks 12th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 50 in South Tyneside. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the South Tyneside workforce, the same release records 25 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in South Tyneside was £19.94 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in South Tyneside 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 Tyneside: 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 Tyneside earn a median of £31,604 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in South Tyneside at £26,000, £5,604 below it.