These are the ATS keywords, credentials, and software terms that recur across current caregiver job descriptions — organized so you can scan for what your resume is missing. Placement matters as much as presence: an ATS keyword buried in a skills list ranks lower than the same term used in context inside an experience bullet.
Title variants
- Caregiver
- Carer
- Personal Care Assistant
- PCA
- Home Health Aide
- HHA
- Certified Nursing Assistant
- CNA
- Direct Support Professional
- DSP
- Senior Carer
- Support Worker
- Care Assistant
- Residential Care Worker
- Companion
- Private Duty Caregiver
Credentials
- CNA
- HHA
- DSP
- Care Certificate
- NVQ Level 2
- NVQ Level 3
- SSSC
- CPR
- BLS
- AED
- first aid
- medication aide
- MedTech
- Dementia Friends
- PMVA
- positive behaviour support
- PBS
Transfer equipment
- Hoyer lift
- Sara Steady
- gait belt
- sliding board
- Arjo
- Molift
- stand-assist lift
- transfer belt
- mechanical lift
- sit-to-stand
ADL skills
- personal care
- bathing
- grooming
- oral hygiene
- continence care
- catheter care
- incontinence
- dressing assistance
- skin integrity
- pressure area care
- Waterlow score
- turning schedule
- meal preparation
- texture modification
- IDDSI
- fluid intake monitoring
- vital signs
- blood pressure
- pulse oximetry
- SpO2
- blood glucose
Client populations
- dementia
- Alzheimer's disease
- vascular dementia
- Lewy body dementia
- Parkinson's disease
- ALS
- MND
- multiple sclerosis
- stroke
- post-surgical
- spinal cord injury
- traumatic brain injury
- TBI
- intellectual disability
- IDD
- autism
- ASD
- developmental disability
- paediatric
- end-of-life
- hospice
- palliative care
Dementia care
- validation therapy
- reminiscence therapy
- BPSD
- sundowning management
- PEARL programme
- non-pharmacological
- person-centred care
- Kitwood
- GDS
- dementia staging
Systems
- EVV
- Electronic Visit Verification
- Sandata
- HHAeXchange
- ClearCare
- PointClickCare
- Homecare Homebase
- care plan documentation
- incident report
- shift handover
Long-tail phrases
- caregiver resume
- carer resume
- CNA resume
- HHA resume
- home health aide resume
- caregiver cv
- caregiver resume examples
- caregiver resume 2026
- dementia caregiver resume
- how to write a caregiver resume
Pasting these terms into your resume verbatim without matching context can read as keyword stuffing to a human reviewer, even if it passes the ATS. The full Caregiver resume guide shows where each category belongs and how to work it into real experience bullets.