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

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Mental Health Support Worker Skills List in Social Care

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

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

mental health
40%
support worker
20%
qualified social worker
20%
project worker
18%
homelessness
15%
housing
15%
mental health support worker
15%
community support worker
13%
floating support worker
13%
housing support worker
13%
substance misuse
13%
health care
13%
learning disabilities
13%
young adults
10%
social work
8%
care
5%
night support worker
5%
social care
5%
waking nights
5%
community support
3%
substance
3%
assisted living
3%
pmva
3%
observation
3%
mental health care
3%
manual handling
3%
nights
3%
dbs update
3%
care plans
3%
support workers
3%
mental health practitioner
3%
mental health care worker
3%
outreach support worker
3%
health care assistant
3%
care worker
3%
recovery worker
3%
crisis
3%
community mental health team
3%
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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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