Care Worker Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Social Care

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Care Worker Skills List in Social Care

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Care Worker role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Care Worker job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 34% of Care Worker job descriptions contained personal care as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

personal care
34%
social care
27%
health care
27%
healthcare
20%
care worker
14%
residential
14%
children
14%
driving
14%
support worker
14%
domiciliary care
14%
care
14%
social services
14%
home carer
7%
child
7%
residential care
7%
childcare
7%
child welfare
7%
car
7%
support workers
7%
care plans
7%
senior support worker
7%
senior care worker
7%
healthcare assistant
7%
senior
7%
child care
7%
resilience
7%
elderly care
7%
care home
7%
dementia
7%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

Including the right keywords in your CV will help you get past Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and win more job interviews from employers and recruiters.


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