Occupational therapist jobs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled occupational therapist posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2024/25, out of 50 occupational therapist posts in total.

The occupational therapist role is 0.4% of the 13,000 filled adult social care posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, only 26.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled occupational therapist posts, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 2nd of the 11 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 50 filled occupational therapist posts, against 50 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Across the 116 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole workforce, the same release records 200 filled social worker posts, 300 filled registered nurse posts and 400 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole was £20.82 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £40,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole earn a median of £37,241 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at £25,700, £11,541 below it.