Aged Care CV Examples for 2026

An aged care CV should be one to two pages, reverse-chronological, and tailored to the care setting (residential facility vs domiciliary/home care). Open with a personal statement that names your qualifications, years of experience and care philosophy. Follow with a skills section highlighting certifications, then work experience with resident-outcome bullets, education led by your Certificate III or NVQ, and a final section for background checks and additional credentials.

What to include in each section

Lead your qualifications section with Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) for AU roles or Care Certificate plus NVQ Level 2–3 for UK roles, a CV without these gets filtered out. Spell out personal-care duties explicitly (bathing, dressing, toileting, continence care) rather than vague "helped with personal care". Call out dementia-specific experience and palliative care if you have it, these are high-value differentiators. Name the care-documentation systems you've used (Nourish, PASS, Access Care Planning) as ATS keywords.

Aged care employers want to see resident outcomes, not just duties. Use the result-plus-metric pattern: what you did, the impact on residents, and a number that proves it. Spell out the hands-on personal-care tasks (ADLs) you performed, assisting with bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming, feeding, continence care, because vague "personal care" undersells the dignity-sensitive work. Call out dementia-specific techniques (redirection, person-centred approaches) and any palliative/end-of-life care experience.

Before and after bullets

If you provided end-of-life care, give it its own bullet, dignity- and comfort-focused care for dying residents plus emotional support to families is highly valued and signals you can handle the hardest part of the job. Always include safeguarding: state you can identify and report signs of abuse or neglect in vulnerable adults. Omitting safeguarding worries hiring managers.

Action verbs for aged care

Supported, assisted, provided, delivered, maintained, monitored, recorded, reported, coordinated, mentored, identified, ensured, administered, transferred, redirected, de-escalated, comforted, advocated.

Lead your education section with your aged care qualification: Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) for Australian roles or Care Certificate plus NVQ/Diploma Level 2–3 in Health and Social Care for UK roles. These are the minimum-entry credentials care providers screen for, a CV without them (or a stated in-progress enrolment) gets filtered out fast.

If you're still studying, write "Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) – in progress, expected completion June 2026". Many providers hire on attitude and willingness to learn for entry roles, so stating your enrolment removes the "no qualification" blocker.

List your Enhanced DBS check (UK) or National Police Check plus NDIS Worker Screening Check (AU) in an achievements or certifications section. These background checks are mandatory to work with vulnerable elderly people, so "Enhanced DBS, current" near your details proves you can start immediately.

Include First Aid and CPR (Level 2 or 3), manual handling training, and any medication-administration or MAR-chart competency certificate. These are safety-critical, trainable skills that aged care employers verify. If you have specialist training in dementia care (e.g. Dementia Care Matters, Dementia Friends) or palliative/end-of-life care, list it, these are high-value differentiators.

For GCSEs or A-levels, a single line is enough unless you're entry-level with limited work experience. If you have no formal aged care qualification yet, lead with your Care Certificate, First Aid cert and any volunteer or unpaid caring experience (looking after a relative counts) to show you understand the role.