Whether you’re an experienced caregiver or just stepping into the role, your resume is your chance to demonstrate your empathy, patience, and reliability — and score that new job!
The good news is that it’s the candidates’ market right now. Many organizations are short-staffed and actively hiring. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also says the demand for health and care aids will be growing at an above-average rate over the next several years.
So it’s time to get yourself a new caregiver resume and start job hunting. Our sample and resume writing tips will help you with that!
Caregiver Resume Example (Word)
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Caregiver Resume (text version)
Levis Mendez
Certified Home Health Aide (HHA) with CPA training.
Compassionate, task-oriented caregiver with work experience in assisted living facilities.
Skills
- Mobility support
- Medication administration
- Meal preparation
- Diet management
- Emergency response
- Reflexology
- Manual lymphatic drainage
- Spanish bilingual
- Time management
- Team collaboration
Work Experience
In-Home Caregiver
Comfort Shelters
June 2021-present
Santa Fe, NM
Providing person-centered care at an assisted living facility for senior residents:
- Safe lift and transfer from and to bed, wheelchairs, and vehicles
- Personal hygiene assistance: bathing, grooming dressing.
- Nutrition planning and supervision over the diet as per medical requirements
- Perform muscle relaxing massages and suggest stretching exercises
- Record-keeping and reporting to medical staff on the clients’ condition
- Emotional support and companionship — lead a weekly salsa dancing class with 10+ participants
Live-In Nanny
Porters’ Household
Dec 2019-April 2021
Albuquerque, NM
Supervised two children ages three and seven, one with a movement disability:
- Helped the toddler develop motor and social skills with educational games and play activities.
- Prepared daily healthy lunch meals and school snacks, personalized to each child’s diet.
- Took the older ward to regular PT appointments at the hospital and the younger to swimming class lessons twice a week.
- Communicated with children to discuss feelings, areas of growth, and improvement goals.
References are available upon request.
Education
Southern Technical Institute
Home Health Aid Training Diploma
Issued in March 2021
The Nutrition Institute USA
Nutrition Fundamentals Course
Completed in Feb 2020
National Holistic Institute
Core Massage Therapy Program
60 hours completed in May 2019
How to Make a Caregiver Resume
Use the caregiver resume example above as your starting point. It provides a good chronological structure. Then apply the following tips to personalize each section — summary, work experience, skills, and education.
Open With a Resume Summary
A resume summary gives recruiters a compelling snapshot of your core competencies and career highlights. It’s a quick and effective way to immediately show your value to the employer and make yourself stand out among other applicants.
An ideal resume summary is two to three short sentences in length and includes your most relevant skills, educational credentials, and an accomplishment (optional). Write several versions of your resume and use them on rotation for different job applications.
Elaborate Your Work Experience
Caregivers can come from a variety of backgrounds. Perhaps, you’re a former nanny or took a career leave to focus on providing care to your family (kudos for you!). Or maybe you have been previously working in the medical field as a certified nursing assistant (CNA).
All of these experiences can give your resume an edge. But you must properly articulate how your past experiences relate to the new role. The best way to do so is to highlight the most relevant caregiver duties and responsibilities on your resume in respective sections.
For example, if you’re applying for a caregiver position to work with the elderly, but only have previous experience working with children, highlight your interpersonal skills. After all, if you could build a strong rapport and cultivate great companionship with the younglings, you’d sure be a great company to the elders too.
Likewise, you may also have ample transferable skills from other roles. In the sample caregiver resume above, the applicant has experience and is trained in doing massages and creating nutrition plans — both are excellent skills to mention! Speaking of which…
Create a Featured Skills Section
Nothing makes a better argument about your qualifications as a featured skills section on your resume. You can place it in the resume header or in the sidebar if you opt for a modern resume template with a two-column layout like Simple Snapshot or a Powerful Makeover.
By giving your caregiver skills a prominent feature, you’re more likely to capture the reader’s attention and persuade them to read your entire resume.
Here are some sample caregiver resume skills to include:
Hard Skills
- Mobility support
- Incontinence Care
- Motion exercises
- Nutrition planning
- Feeding assistance
- Personal hygiene care
- Medication management
- Vitals monitoring
- Emergency response
- Symptoms observation
- Wound and injury care
- First Aid and CPR
- Chronic disease management
- Housekeeping assistance
- Safety supervision
- Recordkeeping
- Digital literacy
- Medical equipment operations
- Recreational activities
- Emotional support
- Client advocacy
- Dementia care
Soft Skills
- Companionship
- Self-management
- Empathy
- Flexibility
- Mental resilience
- Stress management
- Active listening
- Conflict resolution
- Written communication
- Dependability
- Discretion
- Positive attitude
- Teamwork
- Attention to detail
Need even more ideas? Browse more recommended resume skills posts from our blog:
Final tip: Add Some Extras
Still, have some extra room on your resume? Don’t let it go to waste. To have a more memorable application you can also include a few more tidbits. For example, a quick line about your hobbies and interests if these are related to the job. Can you organize dance classes or hold yoga sessions with your clients? Then bring this up in your hobbies section!
And if your work experience section looks a bit sparse, include volunteering experience. It’s a great testament to your character and penchant for helping people!
