Career path

Health Care Assistants

The skills this job asks for, and the level for each.

Skills for this career path

82 skills listed by ESCO, 49 of them essential. 82 are in our skills list and linked; we measure a match on those. ESCO gives no levels, so we ask for level 3 on an essential skill and 2 on the rest.

Essential · Skills (42)

Essential · Knowledge (7)

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Optional · Skills (14)

Occupation: ISCO-08 occupations (International Labour Organization). Skills: This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission (v1.2.1, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch.

What the “Health Care Assistants” career path asks for

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Skills

Showing 10 of 82, essentials first. The table below lists them all.

Skills this job asks for

Skills asked for89

Essential52

Occupation codeisco08:5321

SourceISCO-08 (ILO) unit groups with ESCO v1.2.1 skills (European Commission, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch; built 2026-09-24

Skills for Health Care Assistants
Skill	Type	Necessity	Level
accept own accountability	skill	essential	3
address problems critically	skill	essential	3

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