Occupational therapist jobs in East Sussex

Skills for Care recorded 75 filled occupational therapist posts in East Sussex in 2024/25, out of 75 occupational therapist posts in total.

The occupational therapist role is 0.4% 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 occupational therapist posts, East Sussex ranks 4th of the 18 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 25 filled occupational therapist posts, against 75 in East Sussex. Across the 116 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the East Sussex workforce, the same release records 150 filled social worker posts, 550 filled registered nurse posts and 375 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in East Sussex was £22.33 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £43,000 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 occupational therapist 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.