Occupational therapist jobs in Kent

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled occupational therapist posts in Kent in 2024/25, out of 100 occupational therapist posts in total.

The occupational therapist role is 0.2% of the 44,000 filled adult social care posts in Kent. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Kent, only 22.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled occupational therapist posts, Kent ranks 1st 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 100 in Kent. Across the 116 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Kent workforce, the same release records 425 filled social worker posts, 1,200 filled registered nurse posts and 1,500 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in Kent was £19.88 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £38,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kent 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 Kent: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Kent earn a median of £36,127 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kent at £25,300, £10,827 below it.