Caregiver Resume Sample Philippines: Two Templates That Work

TL;DR: A caregiver resume for the Philippine market is one page: name and contact, a two-line profile, your TESDA Caregiving NC II and first-aid certificate, then work history written as the tasks you did each day rather than adjectives about yourself. Two complete samples are below, one for a certified caregiver and one for a first-timer whose experience is caring for a lola at home. Never pay a placement fee for household or care work, because Section 13 of the Domestic Workers Act forbids charging you one.

Almost every page that ranks for "caregiver resume sample" is a United States template. It tells you to list HIPAA compliance and CNA licensure, and it opens with an objective paragraph nobody reads. None of that helps you get hired in Makati, Cebu, or Davao.

This is written for the readers who actually decide: a private family hiring for their parent, a home-care agency coordinator screening twenty applications, and a family browsing profiles on a marketplace. They all want the same thing in the first ten seconds. Can this person handle my mother's morning, and will they still be here in six months.

What a Philippine family reads first

Families skim in a fixed order. Your name and where you live. Whether you can work the hours they need. Whether you have handled the condition their parent has. Then everything else.

So the top four lines of your resume matter more than the rest of the page combined. Put your city and your availability at the top, not at the bottom under "personal information". A family in Quezon City looking for live-out day help will stop reading a beautiful resume from a caregiver in Iloilo who only says so on line 40.

Next they look for proof you have done the specific thing. "Experienced in elderly care" means nothing. "Took blood pressure twice a day for three years and logged every reading for the doctor" means you will not panic on day one.

| What the family is asking | Where your resume should answer it | | ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | | Can she reach us and work our hours? | Line 3 and line 4, top of page | | Has she handled this condition? | Profile, second sentence | | Will she know what to do in an emergency? | First-aid line and one escalation bullet | | Can I check her story? | Two named references with permission given | | Is she certified? | Certification block, exact title from the certificate |

Know your own number before the interview. Indeed reported an average caregiver salary of ₱22,849 per month in the Philippines from 98 reported salaries as of 14 August 2026. That is a rough market estimate, not a rate card. Its city breakouts rest on far fewer reports each, which is why one city can show a figure twice the national average. Our caregiver salary guide walks through what actually moves the number.

Sample 1: certified caregiver with paid experience

Copy the shape, not the facts. Replace every bracketed item with your own.

MARIA ELENA S. BAUTISTA
Caregiver | Caregiving NC II
Makati City | 0917 000 0000 | mebautista.care@email.com
Available: live-out, Monday to Saturday, 7:00am to 5:00pm

PROFILE
Caregiver with five years of elderly home care in Metro Manila and one year
as a nursing attendant on a private medical ward. Caregiving NC II. Daily
experience with hypertension and type 2 diabetes routines, twice-daily vital
signs, seven-medicine schedules, and bed-to-wheelchair transfers. Calm with
dementia agitation in the late afternoon.

CERTIFICATION
Caregiving NC II, TESDA. Certificate number [exactly as printed on your NC].
Assessed at [accredited assessment center], [city], [month year].
Standard First Aid and Basic Life Support, [training organisation],
renewed [month year].

WORK EXPERIENCE

Live-out caregiver, private family, Makati City
March 2022 to present
- Sole daytime caregiver for an 84-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease
  and hypertension, 10 hours a day, six days a week.
- Take blood pressure, pulse, and temperature morning and afternoon. Write
  every reading in a notebook the family doctor reviews each month.
- Run a seven-medicine daily schedule with a weekly pill organiser. Refill it
  every Sunday with the daughter present so two people have checked it.
- Assist with bathing, dressing, oral care, and toilet use. Transfer from bed
  to wheelchair using a gait belt.
- Cook low-salt, low-sugar meals within the diet the doctor wrote down.
- Call the daughter first and the barangay emergency number second for a fall,
  chest pain, or sudden confusion. Two incidents in three years, both reported
  within the hour.

Nursing attendant, [hospital or clinic], Pasig City
January 2021 to February 2022
- Assisted nurses with bed baths, two-hourly turning, feeding, and walking
  for six to eight patients per shift.
- Recorded intake and output and reported changes to the charge nurse.

SKILLS
Vital signs | Medication schedules and reminders | Bed-to-wheelchair and
bed-to-CR transfers | Dementia routines and de-escalation | Standard first aid
and CPR | Low-salt and diabetic-friendly cooking | Written daily care log |
Tagalog, English, basic Bisaya

DOCUMENTS READY
NBI clearance | Barangay and police clearance | Medical certificate |
TESDA National Certificate | PhilSys ID and one more valid ID

REFERENCES
[Name], daughter of former client, Makati City, 0917 000 0000. Permission given.
[Name], head nurse, [hospital], Pasig City, 0918 000 0000. Permission given.

Notice what is missing. No age, no height, no civil status, no "hardworking and God-fearing". The bullets carry verbs and numbers, and every one of them is something a former employer could confirm.

Sample 2: first caregiver resume, family care only

Caring for your own lola is real work. The mistake first-timers make is apologising for it, or hiding it under "personal experience". Write it as a job, name it honestly as family care, and let the detail do the arguing.

JOAN P. DELA CRUZ
Aspiring caregiver | First-time applicant
Cebu City | 0917 000 0000 | joan.delacruz@email.com
Available: live-in or live-out, any schedule, can start immediately

PROFILE
I cared for my 79-year-old grandmother at home for three years until she
passed in January 2026. I did her bathing, feeding, medicines, and blood
pressure checks every day, and I learned her routine well enough that the
barangay health worker asked me to keep her chart. I am enrolling in
Caregiving NC II this quarter and I am looking for elderly care work in
Cebu City.

CARE EXPERIENCE

Family caregiver, own household, Cebu City
February 2023 to January 2026
- Full daily care for my grandmother, 79, with hypertension and limited
  mobility after a hip fracture.
- Bathed, dressed, and fed her. Helped her walk with a quad cane and assisted
  her to the CR through the night.
- Took her blood pressure every morning and wrote it in a notebook the
  barangay health worker checked during home visits.
- Gave four maintenance medicines on schedule from the list her doctor wrote,
  and refilled her prescriptions at the health center.
- Cooked low-salt meals and kept her fluid intake within the doctor's advice.
- Turned her every two hours during the weeks she could not stand and checked
  her skin daily for pressure sores.

OTHER WORK
Sales assistant, [store name], Cebu City. June 2021 to January 2023.
Cash handling, opening and closing, stock counts. No absences in 19 months.

TRAINING
Enrolled in Caregiving NC II at [TESDA-registered training centre],
starting [month year].
Basic first aid, [organisation], [month year].

SKILLS
Blood pressure monitoring | Bathing, feeding, and dressing assistance |
Walking and transfer support | Medicine schedules | Low-salt cooking |
Written daily log | Cebuano, Tagalog, English

DOCUMENTS READY
NBI clearance | Barangay clearance | Medical certificate | PhilSys ID

REFERENCES
[Name], barangay health worker, Barangay [name], Cebu City, 0917 000 0000.
Permission given.
[Name], former supervisor, [store name], 0918 000 0000. Permission given.

The barangay health worker reference is the strongest line on that page. It is a third party outside the family who watched the work.

Replace the objective with a two-line profile

Search "caregiver resume objective" and you get sentences like "Seeking a challenging position where I can utilise my skills and grow with the organisation." Delete it. It says nothing, and a coordinator reading twenty applications will skip it every time.

Write two lines that answer what you can do and what you want:

1. Years of experience, certificate, and the conditions you have handled.
2. The schedule, arrangement, and area you are looking for.

That is it. If you have no paid experience, line one becomes what you did at home and for how long, and line two stays the same.

Your Helpers profile bio is the resume most families see

Most families on a marketplace never open a PDF. They read a photo, a rate, and a short bio, then decide whether to message you. Aim for 60 to 90 words, first person, concrete.

Here is a caregiver bio example a certified applicant could adapt:

I am a caregiver with five years of elderly home care in Metro Manila and Caregiving NC II from TESDA. My day usually starts with vital signs, morning medicines, a bath, and a low-salt breakfast. I have worked with two clients who had dementia, so I know how to keep a routine calm when someone is frightened or repeating questions. I can transfer a client from bed to wheelchair on my own. I am looking for live-out day work in Makati, Taguig, or Pasig.

A shorter variant for a first-time caregiver:

I looked after my grandmother at home for three years after her hip fracture. Bathing, feeding, four maintenance medicines, daily blood pressure, and turning her every two hours. Our barangay health worker can confirm it. I start Caregiving NC II this quarter and I am open to live-in work anywhere in Cebu City.

And one for a caregiver who wants overnight or live-in work:

Eight years of stroke and bedridden care, five of them live-in. I am used to two-hourly turning, tube-feeding schedules set by a nurse, and waking through the night without complaint. Caregiving NC II. I prefer live-in work in Davao City with one full rest day a week.

Every profile says caring and patient. Almost none say "two-hourly turning" or "seven-medicine schedule". Specifics are the whole advantage.

Skills employers screen for, and how to prove each one

A skills list of bare nouns is wasted space. Give each skill one line of evidence.

| Skill | How to evidence it in one line | | ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Vital signs | Say how often you took them, what you recorded, and who reviewed the log | | Medication schedules | Name the number of medicines, the tool you used, and the double-check with a family member | | Mobility and transfers | Name the method and the client's weight range, plus your fall record | | Dementia patience | Describe one real behaviour you handled, such as late-afternoon agitation or repeated questions | | First aid and CPR | Give the certificate, the issuing organisation, and the date you last renewed it | | Diet cooking | Say low-salt, low-sugar, soft diet, or renal diet, and who set the diet | | Documentation | Say what you wrote down daily and who read it |

One boundary to keep straight. Home-care providers here advertise "medication reminders" rather than administering, and that wording is deliberate. Home Health Care Philippines lists reminders alongside bathing, dressing, meal preparation, and mobility assistance for its private-duty caregivers. Write "medication schedules and reminders" unless a licensed professional has actually delegated more to you in writing. The caregiver job description guide covers where that line sits.

How to list TESDA NC II, first aid, and references

Copy the qualification title exactly as printed on your certificate. TESDA maintains separate training regulations for Caregiving NC II and four specialised variants: Caregiving (Elderly) NC II, Caregiving (Newborn to Pre-Schooler) NC II, Caregiving (Grade Schooler to Adolescent) NC II, and Caregiving (Clients with Special Needs) NC II. Writing "Caregiving NC II" when your certificate says "Caregiving (Elderly) NC II" is a small error that costs you the exact match a family searching for elderly care wants to see.

The plain Caregiving NC II qualification runs 786 nominal training hours and covers eleven core units, including providing care and support to elderly, providing care and support to people with special needs, responding to emergency, and preparing hot and cold meals. When a family asks what your NC II actually taught you, those unit titles are your answer. Our guide on how to become a caregiver in the Philippines covers choosing a registered training centre, and the Housekeeping and Domestic Work NC II guide explains which certificate suits household-heavy roles.

Expect verification. TESDA keeps a Registry of Certified Workers and runs Certification, Verification and Authentication for its National Certificates, so a serious agency can and will check. Never round a Certificate of Competency up to a full NC II.

For references, ask permission before you write anyone down. An unwarned referee who answers a surprise call sounds unsure, and that reads as a bad review. Give the relationship alongside the name, so "daughter of former client" beats "Mrs. Santos". Use a number the person actually answers.

What to leave off

Older Philippine resume templates ask for age, height, weight, civil status, number of children, and religion. Many local employers still expect that block. You are not obliged to give it, and the ones that matter most are the ones you should hold back.

• [ ] Full house address. Your barangay and city are enough until you are hired.
• [ ] ID numbers. Never put your PhilSys, SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, or passport number on a document you send to strangers.
• [ ] A former client's full name and diagnosis. Write "an 84-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease", not her name.
• [ ] Photos of your children or your house interior.
• [ ] Adjective stacks. Hardworking, honest, God-fearing, and loving appear on nearly every application and separate you from nobody.
• [ ] A salary demand on the resume itself. Bring your number to the conversation instead.

Documents to have ready

Get these before you start applying so you can say yes to an interview the same week.

• [ ] NBI clearance, applied for through the NBI online portal. Check the portal for current fees and branch schedules.
• [ ] Barangay clearance and police clearance.
• [ ] Medical certificate from a local government health officer or an accredited clinic.
• [ ] TESDA National Certificate or Certificate of Competency, if you hold one.
• [ ] PhilSys national ID plus one more valid government ID.
• [ ] Birth certificate or another document showing your age.

Here is the part almost nobody tells applicants. Under Section 12 of Republic Act No. 10361, the medical certificate, barangay and police clearance, NBI clearance, and proof of age are the standard pre-employment requirements when a private employment agency facilitates the hire, and the cost is borne by the prospective employer or agency. Read that twice. For household work arranged through an agency, those document costs are not yours to carry.

Never pay to get hired

Section 13 of the same law is blunt. Regardless of whether you were hired through a private employment agency or a third party, no share in the recruitment or finder's fee may be charged against you. That covers work as a kasambahay, yaya, cook, or general househelp, and it covers a caregiver employed by a family in a private home on an occupational basis. If your placement is agency-deployed under a different arrangement, check the coverage rules in our Kasambahay Law explainer before signing anything.

So a local agency asking you for ₱3,000 to "process" you into a household or private caregiving job is not charging a normal business fee. It is charging you for something the law says you do not pay.

Five habits that keep you safe while you apply:

1. Pay nothing to a local agency or fixer for domestic or care placement. No processing fee, no training bundle sold as a guaranteed job, no reservation fee.
2. Never surrender original documents. Hand over photocopies and let anyone who needs to verify look at the originals in front of you.
3. Verify the family before the first home visit. Ask for their full name, exact address, and a video call. A real employer will not refuse.
4. Meet in public first. A mall, a coffee shop, or a barangay hall. Tell a family member or friend where you are going, send them the address, and agree a time you will message them.
5. Walk away from vague promises. "Abroad placement soon" from a local agency is a red flag. Overseas deployment runs through the Department of Migrant Workers and licensed recruitment agencies, and it is a completely different process from local household hiring.

If something feels wrong during an interview, it is allowed to feel wrong. You can leave.

Frequently Asked Questions

What should a caregiver resume in the Philippines include?

Put your name, city, contact number, and availability at the top, then a two-line profile, your TESDA Caregiving NC II if you hold one, your first-aid certificate, and your work history written as what you actually did each day. Add a skills list, your documents, and two references who have agreed to be called. One page is enough for most caregivers.

What is a good caregiver resume objective?

Skip the objective. Write a two-line profile instead that names your years of experience, your certificate, the conditions you have handled, and the schedule you want. An objective tells the family what you want. A profile tells them what you can do on day one, which is the thing they are deciding.

Can I apply as a caregiver without experience or a TESDA certificate?

Yes. Caring for a grandparent at home is real experience if you write it like work, with the tasks, the hours, how long it lasted, and who can confirm it. Say plainly that it was family care instead of dressing it up. Then list the training you are doing or plan to do.

Should I pay an agency to find me a caregiving job?

No. Republic Act No. 10361 Section 13 says no share in the recruitment or finder's fee may be charged against the domestic worker, whether the hire came through a private employment agency or a third party. Section 12 puts the cost of the medical certificate, clearances, and proof of age on the employer or agency. Anyone asking you for cash upfront is the problem.

How do I write my caregiver bio for a Helpers profile?

Write 60 to 90 words in the first person. Give your years of experience, your certificate, one sentence about a real routine you run, one condition you have handled, and the schedule and area you want. Skip adjectives like hardworking and God-fearing, because every other profile has them.

Send it before it feels perfect

Take one of the two samples above, swap in your own facts, and stop editing. A resume with three specific bullets and a reference who answers the phone beats a polished page of adjectives every time.

Then put the same content where families are actually looking. Set up your Helpers profile with the bio you wrote, your NC II title copied exactly, and your real availability, because that profile is the resume most Philippine families will ever read. Browse open caregiving jobs and apply to three this week, even the ones that feel slightly out of reach. When you are ready, create your helper account and finish the profile in one sitting.