Occupational therapist jobs in Leicester

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled occupational therapist posts in Leicester 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 Leicester. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Leicester, only 19.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled occupational therapist posts, Leicester ranks 3rd of the 9 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 25 filled occupational therapist posts, against 50 in Leicester. Across the 116 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Leicester workforce, the same release records 125 filled social worker posts, 125 filled registered nurse posts and 300 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in Leicester was £19.94 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £38,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Leicester 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 Leicester: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Leicester earn a median of £34,096 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leicester at £24,700, £9,396 below it.