Adult social worker jobs in Cheshire East

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled social worker posts in Cheshire East in 2024/25, out of 150 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.3% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Cheshire East. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Cheshire East, only 18% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Cheshire East ranks 4th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 150 in Cheshire East. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Cheshire East workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Cheshire East was £20.21 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cheshire East 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 Cheshire East: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Cheshire East earn a median of £39,459 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cheshire East at £26,000, £13,459 below it.