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

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Healthcare Skills List in Social Care

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Healthcare role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Healthcare job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 49% of Healthcare job descriptions contained care assistant as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

care assistant
49%
healthcare assistant
46%
nursing assistant
33%
enhanced dbs
33%
hca
30%
personal care
26%
health and social care
20%
healthcare
20%
carer
17%
health care assistant
17%
healthcare worker
13%
days
13%
care worker
13%
social care
10%
care plans
10%
mental health
10%
manual handling
7%
6 months experience
7%
forensic healthcare professional
4%
paramedic
4%
communication skills
4%
safeguarding
4%
medication administration
4%
nights
4%
dbs
4%
adults
4%
medication
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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