Adult social worker jobs in Sunderland

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

The social worker role is 1.6% of the 7,700 filled adult social care posts in Sunderland. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Sunderland, only 18.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Sunderland ranks 4th 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 125 in Sunderland. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Sunderland workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Sunderland was £19.22 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sunderland 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 Sunderland: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Sunderland earn a median of £32,015 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sunderland at £25,700, £6,315 below it.