Adult social worker jobs in East Sussex

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

The social worker role is 0.8% of the 19,000 filled adult social care posts in East Sussex. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in East Sussex, only 26.7% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, East Sussex ranks 6th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 150 in East Sussex. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the East Sussex workforce, the same release records 75 filled occupational therapist posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 325 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in East Sussex was £21.42 an hour for the social worker role and about £41,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in East Sussex 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 East Sussex: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in East Sussex earn a median of £35,557 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in East Sussex at £26,500, £9,057 below it.