Occupational therapist jobs in Northumberland

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

The occupational therapist role is 0.5% of the 9,500 filled adult social care posts in Northumberland. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Northumberland, only 25.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled occupational therapist posts, Northumberland ranks 1st of the 9 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 25 filled occupational therapist posts, against 50 in Northumberland. Across the 116 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Northumberland workforce, the same release records 125 filled social worker posts, 225 filled registered nurse posts and 175 filled community support and outreach posts.

Reported median pay in Northumberland was £20.04 an hour for the occupational therapist role and about £38,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Northumberland 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 Northumberland: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Northumberland earn a median of £35,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Northumberland at £25,900, £9,423 below it.