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, 38% of Care Worker job descriptions contained support worker as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

support worker
38%
personal care
25%
health care
19%
residential care worker
19%
healthcare
13%
social services
13%
social care
13%
driving
13%
domiciliary care
13%
care worker
13%
children
13%
care
13%
care plans
7%
senior support worker
7%
support workers
7%
residential
7%
resilience
7%
child care
7%
senior
7%
healthcare assistant
7%
home carer
7%
senior care worker
7%
care support worker
7%
elderly care
7%
care home
7%
dementia
7%
care coordinator
7%
care management
7%
youth worker
7%
youth support
7%
young persons advisor
7%
support manager
7%
support coordinator
7%
support assistant
7%
social worker
7%
enabler
7%
carer
7%
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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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