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, 79% of Care Worker job descriptions contained support worker as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

support worker
79%
health care assistant
72%
home carer
65%
care worker
65%
nurse
36%
care
15%
health care
15%
senior support worker
8%
care assistant
8%
carer
8%
community support worker
8%
hca
8%
driver
8%
personal care
8%
social care
8%
support workers
8%
autism
8%
special needs
8%
teaching assistant
8%
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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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