Adult social worker jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled social worker posts in Stoke-on-Trent in 2024/25, out of 125 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.6% of the 8,000 filled adult social care posts in Stoke-on-Trent. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Stoke-on-Trent, only 34.3% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 6th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 125 in Stoke-on-Trent. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Stoke-on-Trent workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Stoke-on-Trent was £20.74 an hour for the social worker role and about £39,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Stoke-on-Trent earn a median of £34,744 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Stoke-on-Trent at £25,200, £9,544 below it.