Occupational therapist jobs in Dorset

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

The occupational therapist role is 0.5% of the 10,500 filled adult social care posts in Dorset. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Dorset, only 34.6% across all care roles in the area.

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

For the shape of the rest of the Dorset workforce, the same release records 150 filled social worker posts, 250 filled registered nurse posts and 450 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in Dorset was £21.11 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £40,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Dorset 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 Dorset: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Dorset earn a median of £35,311 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Dorset at £25,800, £9,511 below it.