Adult social care in North East
Adult social worker jobs in Stockton-on-Tees
Adult social care in Stockton-on-Tees employs people in 75 filled social worker posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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What the official data says about Stockton-on-Tees
Skills for Care recorded 75 filled social worker posts in Stockton-on-Tees in 2024/25, out of 100 social worker posts in total.
The social worker role is 1.2% of the 6,500 filled adult social care posts in Stockton-on-Tees. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Stockton-on-Tees, only 20.7% across all care roles in the area.
On filled social worker posts, Stockton-on-Tees ranks 10th 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 75 in Stockton-on-Tees. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.
For the shape of the rest of the Stockton-on-Tees workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 200 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.
Reported median pay in Stockton-on-Tees was £18.85 an hour for the social worker role and about £36,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Stockton-on-Tees 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 Stockton-on-Tees: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.
Full-time workers in Stockton-on-Tees earn a median of £36,599 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Stockton-on-Tees at £24,800, £11,799 below it.
- Social worker, filled posts
- 75
- Social worker, median full-time annual pay
- £36,300
- Social worker, median hourly pay
- £18.85
- Social worker, posts in total
- 100
The social worker role
Adult social work is assessment and decision making under the Care Act. You work out what somebody needs, what the law says the council must do about it, and how to arrange support that the person actually recognises as their life.
Safeguarding runs through all of it, alongside mental capacity assessments, best interest decisions and the hard conversations with families who want a different answer from the one the assessment supports.
Social worker (adults) jobs in Stockton-on-Tees: common questions
How many social worker jobs are there in Stockton-on-Tees?
Skills for Care recorded 75 filled social worker posts in Stockton-on-Tees in 2024/25. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in Stockton-on-Tees.
What does a social worker earn in Stockton-on-Tees?
Median reported pay in Stockton-on-Tees was £18.85 an hour, or about £36,300 a year full time, from local authority and independent sector employers. Each advert states its own rate, and that is the figure that counts.
Do I need experience to apply for adult social worker jobs in Stockton-on-Tees?
Social Work England registration. A recognised social work degree or postgraduate qualification. Enhanced DBS check, paid for by the employer. Each advert in Stockton-on-Tees sets out what that employer asks for.