Occupational therapist jobs in Portsmouth

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

The occupational therapist role is 0.5% of the 4,800 filled adult social care posts in Portsmouth. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Portsmouth, only 17.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled occupational therapist posts, Portsmouth ranks 11th 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 25 in Portsmouth. Across the 116 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Portsmouth workforce, the same release records 100 filled social worker posts, 75 filled registered nurse posts and 200 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in Portsmouth was £23.09 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £44,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Portsmouth earn a median of £38,815 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Portsmouth at £26,000, £12,815 below it.