Adult social worker jobs in Blackpool

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

The social worker role is 2.5% of the 5,000 filled adult social care posts in Blackpool. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Blackpool, only 27.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Blackpool ranks 6th 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 125 in Blackpool. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Blackpool workforce, the same release records 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Blackpool was £19.91 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Blackpool 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 Blackpool: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Blackpool earn a median of £32,553 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Blackpool at £25,400, £7,153 below it.