Community Health Worker CV Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is a community health worker with about seven years of work: a primary care network of GP practices, a council public health outreach contract and a hospital discharge support service. In the UK the same work is advertised under several titles (health and wellbeing worker, social prescribing link worker, care coordinator, health trainer). The name and employers are invented. Keep the shape and put in your own caseload, languages and programme names.

Most community health roles sit inside a primary care network budget, a council public health contract or a voluntary sector grant. The person hiring is usually a PCN or social prescribing lead, a public health officer or a charity project manager with reporting deadlines. Four things decide the interview.

• Do you know the community? Say the neighbourhoods, the wards or postcodes, the population and the languages. "Grew up in and still live in the area served" is a real qualification for this job, not a personal note.
• Languages, with your level. Write "Urdu: fluent, including health vocabulary" or "Polish: conversational". An advert for a bilingual role is often filled on this line alone.
• Can you record your work? Funded programmes live or die on reporting. Name the clinical system (EMIS Web, SystmOne), the social prescribing platform your service used, and say you recorded contacts the same day.
• Volume and outcomes. Caseload, visits a week, screenings completed, referrals closed, benefit claims supported, DNA reduction. Managers need to put these numbers into a report next quarter.

“The CVs that stand out say who they served and how many. If a person tells me they carried 60 clients in a specific neighbourhood and closed nine out of ten referrals, that tells me more than any list of qualities. And put the language proficiency near the top, because half our adverts turn on it.”

Use a personal statement if you have done outreach, case work or GP surgery work before. Use a career objective if you are coming from a related field or straight out of a training course. Get the language, the population and one number into the first two lines.

The duties of a community health worker vary by programme, so write the ones you actually did with the count attached. Below are bullets by type of work. Change the numbers to yours.

Split the list. Adverts for this role usually borrow competencies from social prescribing and health and wellbeing job descriptions, so mirroring the wording helps the screening software and the reader.

Client-facing skills:

• Home visiting and street outreach
• Motivational interviewing and goal setting
• Health coaching for diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma
• Advocacy with landlords, energy suppliers, schools and GP surgeries
• Trauma-informed, culturally competent practice
• Group facilitation and health education sessions

Systems and paperwork:

• Clinical system records (EMIS Web, SystmOne)
• Social prescribing referral platforms
• Social needs screening templates and questionnaires
• Benefit applications: Universal Credit, PIP, Healthy Start, council tax support
• Funder and commissioner reporting, contact counts
• UK GDPR, confidentiality and consent

Things worth naming that people forget:

• Language and level ("Bengali: fluent, health vocabulary")
• Full UK driving licence and use of own car (with business insurance) for home visits
• Knowledge of specific neighbourhoods and local organisations
• Lived experience of the condition or community served, if you are comfortable saying so
• Evening and weekend availability for outreach events

There is no licence or national register for community health workers in the UK, and the job title itself varies: social prescribing link worker, health and wellbeing coach, care coordinator, health trainer and community health and wellbeing worker all overlap. Employers set their own training requirements, and roles funded through primary care networks often expect recognised personalised care training. Read the person specification before you write anything.

• If you hold recognised training, list it with the body and the year: "Social prescribing link worker training, Personalised Care Institute, 2024".
• If you are working towards a qualification, say so plainly: "Level 3 Certificate in Health and Social Care in progress, completion expected March 2027".
• If your training was in-house, list it with the hours: "Community health worker induction, 120 hours, [organisation], 2024".
• Add the short trainings that services ask for: Mental Health First Aid, Emergency First Aid at Work, naloxone, safeguarding adults and children, information governance, motivational interviewing and benefits awareness. Say if you hold a current Enhanced DBS check, as home visiting roles require one.
• Education: GCSEs in English and maths (grade 4/C or above) are the usual minimum. A Level 3 in health and social care or a foundation degree helps for senior and lead roles. Do not hide a degree in an unrelated subject; list it and let the community health training carry the relevance.

This is one of the few health roles where being from the community counts as a qualification. Employers hire people with volunteering, faith group, community champion or peer support backgrounds all the time. Build the CV around contact with people and around proof you can keep records.

1. 1Put your languages and your knowledge of the area in the personal statement, in the first sentence.
2. 2Count your volunteering like a job: hours, people reached, events staffed, families helped.
3. 3List any short training you already have, even a one-day Mental Health First Aid course or a first aid certificate.
4. 4Show you can keep records: any job with a log, a register, a till reconciliation or a shift report proves it.
5. 5Say you can drive and have business insurance if the advert mentions home visits, because many do.
6. 6Apply to outreach worker, care navigator, social prescribing link worker, health trainer, peer support worker and community health champion roles too. They are often the same work under another title.

• Two pages at most; one is fine if you have under five years. Many NHS roles are advertised on NHS Jobs, where you fill in an application form and a supporting statement instead of uploading a CV, so keep your CV ready for council, charity and agency roles and reuse its numbers in the statement.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status. If you trained abroad, a UK CV drops all of that.
• Single column, standard headings, PDF unless the advert asks for Word. Council and NHS portals often reject anything else.
• Mirror the advert's words. Common ones: community health worker, social prescribing, link worker, health and wellbeing coach, care coordinator, personalised care, wider determinants of health, health inequalities, closed-loop referral, home visiting, motivational interviewing, safeguarding, UK GDPR.
• If the advert names a programme (Healthy Start, the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, NHS Health Checks, a local social prescribing service), use the exact name in a bullet if you have really worked with it.
• Add a short "Languages" line with levels. It is often the first filter a manager applies.

Outside the UK the same work goes by other names: health extension worker in Ethiopia, ASHA worker in India, barangay health worker in the Philippines, community health worker in the US. If your experience is from one of those systems, keep the local job title, then add one clause explaining the scope in UK terms, for example "village-level health outreach covering 800 households, comparable to a UK community health and wellbeing worker role".