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Healthcare assistant CV template (text format)

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Caring and resourceful HCA with 6+ years of experience in healthcare support. Able to manage patients’ grooming, serve meals, make patients feel comfortable, and monitor health conditions. Possess solid communication, organisational, observational, and issue-resolution skills that will make me an asset as a Healthcare Assistant at Catbrain Nursing Home.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cotham Nursing Home, Bristol

Healthcare Assistant, August 20XX – Present

  • Deliver quality healthcare support, including tracking and ordering medical supplies, setting up equipment, preparing clients for therapy, recording vitals, and transporting patients
  • Trained 10 new care assistants on patient care, support, and wellbeing, and drafted a booklet on caregiving processes, procedures, and protocols
  • Recommended the use of a new check-in and monitoring system to efficiently manage patients

Broadmead Medical Centre, Bristol

Care Worker, May 20XX – July 20XX

  • Followed prescribed healthcare plans to provide exceptional care to elderly patients while promoting happy and comfortable lifestyles
  • Commended by my supervisor for focusing on companionship and emotional support
  • Achieved 5-star reviews from clients and a 100% rating for punctuality

EDUCATION

MORLEY COLLEGE LONDON (20XX–20XX)

BTEC National Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care

KEY SKILLS

  • Remain calm in stressful and challenging situations
  • Complete assignments safely and efficiently
  • Clearly convey sensitive information
  • Accept criticism and improve personal performance

How to write your healthcare assistant CV

To support patients as a healthcare assistant, you first need to carefully write a CV that convinces medical employers to invite you to a job interview.

Follow these three tips or use an online CV maker to make a job-winning healthcare assistant CV:

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1. Set out your healthcare assistant CV based on your experience

Any information that’s most likely to impress the recruiter should be placed near the top of your CV. So the way you lay out your CV depends on how much healthcare experience you have.

For instance, if you’ve already worked in healthcare, your CV’s work experience section should go right below your personal statement. Arranging your CV sections like this emphasises your best selling point — your proven ability to handle the work you’re applying for.

But if you have no experience as a care worker or healthcare assistant, arrange the sections of your CV so your skills and education are on the first page. This layout is known as a skills-based CV, and it includes a skills section with:

  • your job-relevant skills as headers
  • 3–4 bullets describing each skill
  • examples of how you’ve used those skills, including hard numbers if possible

Here’s an example of a skills section entry on a skills-based CV for a healthcare assistant:

Old-Age Pensioner Care

  • Primary caregiver for elderly grandfather 4 days per week, with duties including feeding meals and changing bedpan
  • Pick up medicine prescriptions and administer proper doses 3 times daily
  • Follow physical therapist’s instructions to help maintain limited mobility

2. Highlight your most relevant healthcare skills and experience

Whether you use a standard CV format to emphasise your experience or a skills-based CV to focus on your skills and education, the information you should highlight depends on the job advert.

So if the job advert clearly shows the employer prefers healthcare assistants with experience in NHS hospitals, prioritise such experience on your CV, if possible. Even if you’re more proud of your accomplishments as a GP’s surgery assistant or as an in-home caregiver, the recruiter will be more impressed by your hospital work history.

Additionally, putting keywords from the job advert on your CV helps you get the recruiter’s attention.

Here are examples of hard skills and soft skills from healthcare assistant job descriptions that employers will be looking for in your CV:

  • Empathy
  • Medical equipment expertise
  • Physical strength
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Healthcare certifications

3. Write your personal statement last

Your CV’s personal statement appears at the top of your CV. But you should write this 3–4 sentence section last to ensure it highlights the most important skills and experience on your CV.

Writing about your work and education history first helps you identify the most important information to include in your personal statement.

Here’s an example of a personal statement from a healthcare assistant CV that shows you how to write yours:

A healthcare assistant CV personal statement example with three sentences describing the applicant
Tailor your personal statement to each healthcare assistant job you target.

Tips for answering healthcare assistant interview questions

If you’re preparing for an interview as a healthcare assistant, you’ll want to watch this video to learn about the most common questions — and how to answer them:

Healthcare assistant job outlook in 2025 — things to know

According to the UK Earnings Explorer provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), healthcare assistants in the UK earn an average annual salary of £18,278.

There are similar pay levels for both men and women in this type of role.

Data source: The Office for National Statistics, an agency of His Majesty’s Government. The information contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 and reflects the ONS’s most recent salary (1/11/2023), gender pay gap (4/2023), and skills shortage data (6/2022).

Samuel Johns
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Samuel Johns

Samuel Johns is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and Senior Editor on the CV Genius team, with 6+ years of experience in the careers space. He has helped countless job hunters craft high-quality CVs and cover letters, exceed expectations at interviews, and obtain their dream jobs. Born and raised in County Durham in the beautiful North East of England, he graduated with a BA (Hons) in French Language and Literature from the University of Bristol in 2013 and has worked in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, London, Paris, and Taipei as a French–English translator. He’s determined to use his native English and fluent French skills to help UK and French candidates get the jobs they deserve. In addition to the British and French versions of CV Genius, Samuel’s job-hunt advice has been published on numerous websites, including Careers.org, the University of Warwick, the Enterprisers Project, and HR.com. If you’d like to collaborate, please reach out to Samuel through LinkedIn. Please note, we don’t accept guest posts and won’t reply to such requests.