Adult social worker jobs in York

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

The social worker role is 2% of the 6,300 filled adult social care posts in York. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in York, only 27.3% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, York ranks 9th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 125 in York. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the York workforce, the same release records 10 filled occupational therapist posts, 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in York was £18.57 an hour for the social worker role and about £35,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in York 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 York: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in York earn a median of £39,337 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in York at £25,400, £13,937 below it.