A healthcare assistant resume should show safe, person-centred support.

These titles can describe overlapping work, but keyword searches treat them as different queries. Put the title used in the vacancy at the top of your resume when it accurately describes your experience.

• Healthcare Assistant
• Health Care Assistant
• Care Assistant
• Clinical Support Worker
• Nursing Assistant
• Support Worker

Describe the care tasks, patient group, and supervision boundary accurately. Never turn delegated support into registered clinical responsibility.

• Personal careEssential

  Show dignity, consent, independence, and the setting in which support was delivered.

  Also write: activities of daily living · ADLs

• Vital signs

  State observations completed, recording system, and escalation boundary.

  Also write: clinical observations · temperature pulse respiration

• Moving and handlingEssential

  Name current training and equipment used within assessment and care plans.

  Also write: patient handling · safe transfer

• Nutrition and hydration

  Connect support, intake records, risk recognition, and escalation.

  Also write: fluid balance · meal support

• Dementia care

  Relevant when supported by person-centred communication and safe behaviour response.

  Also write: memory care · cognitive impairment support

Records and equipment keywords should show safe use, accurate documentation, and continuity of care.

• Electronic care records

  Name the system where useful and show timely recording of care and observations.

  Also write: digital care plan · EPR

• NEWS2

  Use only where trained and responsible for recording observations and escalating scores.

  Also write: early warning score

• Hoist

  Relevant when current moving-and-handling training covers the equipment and care-plan use.

  Also write: stand aid · slide sheet

• Blood glucose monitor

  State delegated competency and escalation boundary accurately.

  Also write: capillary blood glucose

Training and checks are setting-specific. State current status, awarding body, and level without implying regulated registration.

• Care Certificate

  A recognised set of standards for health and social care support workers in England.

  Also write: Care Certificate standards

• Level 2 Diploma in Care

  State the exact qualification and awarding body.

  Also write: Adult Care Level 2 · Health and Social Care Level 2

• Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care

  Relevant to experienced support work when the award is completed or accurately marked in progress.

  Also write: Adult Care Level 3 · Health and Social Care Level 3

• Enhanced DBS check

  State current or update-service status only where appropriate; employers complete their own checks.

  Also write: DBS · Disclosure and Barring Service

Employers look for dignity, accurate observation, safeguarding, teamwork, and knowing when to escalate.

• SafeguardingEssential

  Show recognition and correct escalation without case-identifying detail.

  Also write: adult safeguarding · safeguarding concerns

• Person-centred careEssential

  Use a concrete example of choice, independence, communication, or adjusted support.

  Also write: individualised care

• Care documentation

  Show accurate, timely records and changes communicated to the nurse or senior carer.

  Also write: daily care notes · observation records

• Multidisciplinary working

  Name nurses, therapists, families, and care staff where collaboration changed support.

  Also write: MDT working · team-based care

The figures below are examples. Replace them with your own evidence—the structure is reusable, the content is not.

• Caring person

  Show dignity, observation, communication, or independence supported through a concrete action.

• Patient-identifying stories

  Anonymise every example and protect confidential health information.

• Registered clinical duties you did not own

  Keep delegated support and escalation boundaries explicit.

• An undated training list

  Prioritise current, relevant training and accurate completion status.