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

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Care Assistant Skills List in Social Care

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Care Assistant role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Care Assistant job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 84% of Care Assistant job descriptions contained personal care as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

personal care
84%
residential care
75%
nursing
59%
caring
55%
residential homes
49%
nursing care
23%
nursing homes
23%
health care
10%
nurse
10%
communication skills
10%
health
7%
care plans
7%
healthcare
7%
flexibility
4%
medication
4%
shopping
4%
support workers
4%
time management
4%
bathing
4%
social care
4%
recruitment
4%
elderly
4%
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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.

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