Adult social worker jobs in Thurrock

Skills for Care recorded 75 filled social worker posts in Thurrock in 2024/25, out of 75 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.9% of the 4,000 filled adult social care posts in Thurrock. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Thurrock, only 15.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Thurrock ranks 8th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 75 in Thurrock. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Thurrock workforce, the same release records 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Thurrock was £21.78 an hour for the social worker role and about £41,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Thurrock 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 Thurrock: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Thurrock earn a median of £40,623 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Thurrock at £25,900, £14,723 below it.