Occupational therapist jobs in Suffolk

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled occupational therapist posts in Suffolk in 2024/25, out of 50 occupational therapist posts in total.

The occupational therapist role is 0.2% of the 23,500 filled adult social care posts in Suffolk. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Suffolk, only 21.7% across all care roles in the area.

On filled occupational therapist posts, Suffolk ranks 4th 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 50 in Suffolk. Across the 116 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Suffolk workforce, the same release records 450 filled social worker posts, 475 filled registered nurse posts and 425 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in Suffolk was £21.00 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £40,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Suffolk 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 Suffolk: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Suffolk earn a median of £36,891 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Suffolk at £25,400, £11,491 below it.