Occupational therapist jobs in Essex

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled occupational therapist posts in Essex in 2024/25, out of 125 occupational therapist posts in total.

The occupational therapist role is 0.3% of the 38,000 filled adult social care posts in Essex. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Essex, only 22.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled occupational therapist posts, Essex ranks 1st of the 8 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 37.5 filled occupational therapist posts, against 125 in Essex. Across the 116 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Essex workforce, the same release records 550 filled social worker posts, 750 filled registered nurse posts and 850 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in Essex was £22.84 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £44,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Essex 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 occupational therapist role in Essex: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Essex earn a median of £38,098 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Essex at £25,300, £12,798 below it.