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

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Health Care Skills List in Social Care

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Health Care role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Health Care job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 40% of Health Care job descriptions contained healthcare assistant as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

healthcare assistant
40%
health care
30%
nursing
30%
personal care
25%
caring
20%
manual handling
15%
elderly
10%
senior care
10%
health & social care
5%
time management
5%
welsh speaking
5%
work based learning
5%
high standards
5%
independent living
5%
reliable
5%
community mental health team
5%
care
5%
always punctual
5%
care home experience
5%
driver
5%
great communication skills
5%
friendly personality
5%
good verbal and written skills
5%
induction
5%
leadership
5%
social work
5%
listener
5%
care home
5%
organisational skills
5%
nursing home
5%
problem solving
5%
apprenticeship assessor
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.

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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