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

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Health Care Assistant Skills List in Social Care

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Health Care Assistant role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Health Care Assistant job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 64% of Health Care Assistant job descriptions contained healthcare assistant as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

healthcare assistant
64%
personal care
19%
caring
19%
health care
19%
nursing
19%
health care assistant
19%
care assistant
14%
care support worker
14%
care worker
14%
carer
14%
residential care worker
14%
social carer
14%
support worker
14%
home care worker
10%
support assistant
10%
driver
10%
elderly
10%
manual handling
10%
care helper
10%
healthcare
5%
nursing home
5%
enhanced dbs
5%
always punctual
5%
friendly personality
5%
assessor
5%
good verbal and written skills
5%
leadership
5%
care management
5%
listener
5%
organisational skills
5%
problem solving
5%
time management
5%
health and social care assessor
5%
trainer
5%
care
5%
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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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