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

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Social Care Skills List in Social Care

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Social Care role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Social Care job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 68% of Social Care job descriptions contained social care as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

social care
68%
social work
26%
support worker
23%
social care assistant
20%
public sector
17%
adult social care
17%
public sector jobs
13%
surrey
13%
local government
13%
care assistant
10%
adult social work
10%
children's social care
10%
recruitment
10%
care support worker
7%
children's services
7%
programme lead
7%
senior management
7%
hr
7%
programme management
7%
project management
7%
admin
7%
administartion
7%
disability
7%
carer
7%
caring
7%
charity
7%
support services manager
7%
customer service
7%
nhs
7%
health care
7%
direct payments
7%
health and social
7%
support manager
7%
support services
7%
social services
7%
social care manager
7%
services coordinator
7%
service manager
7%
health and social care
7%
care manager
7%
adults social care
7%
social care officer
7%
adults
7%
youth worker
4%
training
4%
working with young people
4%
care worker
4%
care work
4%
english
4%
filing
4%
induction
4%
interviews
4%
organisational skills
4%
personnel
4%
head of service
4%
senior social care assistant
4%
dbs
4%
relief
4%
care
4%
youth work
4%
youth
4%
young people
4%
social care assessor
4%
social worker
4%
adult social worker
4%

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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