Recruitment Analysis – Northern Ireland

    The four health and social services boards employed about 48,432
    staff of whom just over a tenth were in social services
    (4,500).

    In social services just under half of staff were under the age
    of 40 and about four-fifths were women.

    There were 1,648 qualified social workers and 315 unqualified
    (wte).

    Nearly 30 per cent of qualified social workers were part time,
    which fell to under a tenth of unqualified social workers.

    There was also a big gender difference in hours between men,
    with 7 per cent part time, and female staff where the percentage
    working part-time rose to 29 per cent.

    Vacancies averaged at 3.2 per cent but rose to just fewer than 8
    per cent in South and East Belfast Health and Social Services
    Trust.

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