Home health aide resume examples & writing guide for 2026

Three home health aide resumes at new, Medicare-certified and hospice level, rendered in a real template and taken apart line by line. Each names the kind of agency, says how the work was paid, and counts the visits the way the scheduler counts them.

By the Resumi editorial teamUpdated September 14, 202610 min read

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Home health aide resume example, mid level, rendered in the Green Academic template

Written by the Resumi editorial team for a fictional candidate. Role facts come from O*NET and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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What makes this resume work

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1
Medicare-certified, said outright
A certified agency and a private one are different employers with different rules, different pay shapes and different training requirements. Naming which you worked for is the first thing a staffing coordinator sorts on.
2
Visits a day, not hours
Seven a day across 3 counties. Certified agencies schedule and pay in visits, so writing hours here would describe the wrong job and make the whole page harder to place.
3
Charting against the care plan
Documented against the written aide care plan within 5 minutes of leaving. Aides at certified agencies work from a plan an RN wrote, and charting to it is the part that keeps the agency compliant.
4
Continuity, as a number
Four cases held past 18 months on a caseload of 11. Turnover is the industry's defining problem, so the length of time you stayed on a case is the most persuasive figure an aide has.
5
The private duty years, one line
Eight-hour shifts for 4 clients across 25 months. The earlier half of the occupation earns its line by keeping its own unit rather than being converted into visits it never was.
6
The state certificate, dated
California, its issuing department and the year. The name of this credential changes at every state border, so writing the exact title and issuer is what makes it verifiable rather than decorative.

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01The example, in full

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Ludmila Petrenko

Home health aide · Medicare-certified agency · 7 visits a day · HHAeXchange

Fresno, CAludmila.petrenko@example.com(555) 361-7745

Summary

Home health aide at a Medicare-certified agency, five years on the California certification after two in private duty. Carries 7 visits a day across 3 counties and works from a written aide care plan.

Experience

Home health aide

May 2022 – Present

Kings Canyon Home Health · Fresno, CA

Completed 7 home visits a day across 3 counties, about 1,400 visits a year.
Documented every visit against the aide care plan in HHAeXchange within 5 minutes of leaving.
Maintained a 99% on-time clock-in rate across 1,400 visits and 3 years.
Monitored pulse, temperature and respiration for 12 patients a week and reported 9 changes in 12 months.
Maintained 4 long-term cases for more than 18 months each on a caseload of 11.

Home health aide, private duty

Mar 2020 – Apr 2022

Blackstone Senior Care · Fresno, CA

Delivered personal care on 8-hour private duty shifts for 4 clients a week across 25 months.

Education

Certificate in Home Health Aide

Sep 2019 – Feb 2020

Central Valley Career Institute · Fresno, CA

Skills

Client care: Activities of daily living (ADLs), Personal care assistance, Patient transfers, Vital signs
Clinical: Change-of-condition reporting, Plan of care documentation, Medication reminders, Fall prevention
Systems: HHAeXchange, Electronic visit verification (EVV), Clinical documentation, Meal preparation

Certifications

Home Health Aide certification, California

Feb 2020

California Department of Public Health

Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA)

Jun 2023

National Center for Competency Testing

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Feb 2025

American Heart Association

02Market snapshot

Median pay: $35,800 a year, $17.21 an hour. BLS blends home health aides with personal care aides
Typical education: A high school diploma or equivalent, then short-term on-the-job training. Some jobs need no credential
Job outlook: +18% employment change, 2025-35, and about 760,500 openings a year, blended with personal care aides
Common credentials: Licensing is by state. Aides at Medicare-funded agencies must complete formal training and pass a standardized test

Sources: BLS OES (May 2025) · BLS OOH (2025)

03The same resume at three levels

The tinted row is the level shown above.

Entry-level
0–2 years
The certification leads with its state because the name of this credential changes at every border. Shift length says which half of the occupation this is, the clock-in record is counted because it is what the agency bills on, and the 90 miles a week are stated because home care is a driving job.
Typical titles: Home health aide, Caregiver, Personal care aide
Mid-level
3–6 years
The kind of agency comes first because it changes the pay shape, the rules and the vocabulary. Visits replace hours, charting is tied to the aide care plan an RN wrote, vitals carry the 9 changes they produced, and continuity on a case is stated as a number because turnover is what the reader is hiring against.
Typical titles: Home health aide, Certified home health aide, Home care aide
Senior
7+ years
Hospice leads because the supervision and the plan of care come from a team rather than a scheduler. Cases carried through death is the sentence a hospice manager is looking for, the reports carry what they produced, and the two earlier settings hold one line each in their own units.
Typical titles: Hospice aide, Home health aide, Certified nursing assistant, home care

04Summary

Weak

Compassionate and dependable home health aide with a genuine passion for helping seniors maintain their independence and dignity in the comfort of their own homes.

Strong

The kind of agency, the state on the certification, the years in each half of the occupation, the daily visit count and the territory. A staffing coordinator can place that against an open case in seconds. The weak version would fit any aide in the country.

05Bullets

Weak

Provided compassionate personal care and companionship to elderly clients in their homes, assisting with daily living activities and light housekeeping as needed.

Strong

Maintained a 99% on-time clock-in rate across 1,400 visits and 3 years.

A rate, the visits it was measured over and the years it held. Electronic visit verification is what the agency actually bills on, and a visit with no clock-in is treated as unworked and unbillable, so an aide who never misses one is solving the scheduler's own problem before they have to raise it. Nothing else on a home care resume converts so directly into money for the person reading it. The weak bullet describes the definition of the job rather than anything this aide did, which means every applicant for the same case could send it word for word.

06Skills and keywords

Client care

Activities of daily living (ADLs) (in the example)
Personal care assistance (in the example)
Patient transfers (in the example)
Mechanical lift operation
Meal preparation (in the example)
Light housekeeping

Health and safety

Vital signs (in the example)
Change-of-condition reporting (in the example)
Medication reminders (in the example)
Fall prevention (in the example)
Sterilization and infection control
End-of-life care

Systems

HHAeXchange (in the example)
Electronic visit verification (EVV) (in the example)
Plan of care documentation (in the example)
Clinical documentation (in the example)
WellSky
MatrixCare

Credentials

Home Health Aide certification (in the example)
Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) (in the example)
Basic Life Support (BLS) (in the example)
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification
Certified Patient Care Technician/Assistant (CPCT/A)
Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP)

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07Mistakes to avoid

The kind of agency left unnamed
Fix: A Medicare-certified agency, a private-duty agency, a hospice and a registry are four different employers with different training rules, different supervision and different pay shapes. Name yours, because a coordinator reading your page is sorting for the one they run.
Hours and visits used as if they were one unit
Fix: Private duty is staffed in hourly shifts, certified home health and hospice in visits, and live-in work in day rates. Write the unit your employer actually paid in, and if you worked both, keep each one inside the job where it belongs.
No clock-in or verification record anywhere
Fix: Electronic visit verification is what the agency bills on, and an unverified visit is treated as unworked. An aide who can state an on-time rate is offering the office the number it worries about most, and almost nobody puts it on the page.
Compassion with no task behind it
Fix: Every aide resume says compassionate and dependable, so neither word distinguishes anyone. Give the client count, the shift or visit length, the transfers and equipment, the miles, and how long you stayed on a case. Tenure is the most persuasive number in a field this short-staffed.
Clients named on the page
Fix: Write the agency, the setting and the client population, never a name or an address. Naming a client is a privacy problem a reader will notice immediately, and it costs more trust than the specificity buys.

08Format and template

Single column, standard headings, no photo, one page. A staffing coordinator is matching you to an open case, so the certification with its state, the kind of agency, your availability and your travel radius all belong in the top third. This example uses Green Academic, which gives each credential a dated row and leaves room for the training program the certification came from. The same content works in Standard, Warm Classic and Beige Border, all single column. If you drive to clients, put the license and a clean record on the page, because in this field that is a hard requirement rather than a nicety.

Shown above: Green Academic

StandardFree
Warm Classic
Beige Border

09Questions home health aides ask

What is the difference between a home health aide and a personal care aide?

Scope, and it shows up in the federal task list. A home health aide checks pulse, temperature and respiration, assists with prescribed medication under written direction from a physician or a nurse, and works from a care plan. A personal care aide is limited to nonmedical help: bathing, dressing, meals, housekeeping, errands and company. Federal statistics blend the two occupations into one number, but employers do not, so write the title your employer used and let the tasks show which one it was.

What certification do I need?

It depends on the agency more than on the state. Aides at agencies that take Medicare must complete formal training and pass a standardized test, so a certified agency will not hire you without it. Private agencies that take no federal money set their own bar, and many hire with no credential and train you. Several states also issue their own certification or license, with a different name in almost every state, so write the exact title your state issues, the agency that issued it and the date.

What numbers belong on a home health aide resume?

The ones your agency already tracks. Clients on your caseload, visits a day or hours a shift, the length of a live-in day, miles driven, two-person transfers, the equipment you use, your on-time clock-in rate, and how long you stayed on each case. In hospice, add cases carried through death. Leave out lifetime patient totals, because a scheduler staffs a week rather than a career, and leave out any satisfaction percentage, because that is the agency's number and not yours.

I have only cared for a family member. Does that count?

Yes, and it is worth writing carefully rather than either hiding it or inflating it. Give the years, the conditions you managed, the transfers and equipment, the medications you reminded or assisted with, and the appointments and paperwork you handled. If a state program paid you through a consumer-directed option, that is paid employment and belongs in the experience section with the program named. If it was unpaid, put it in its own section headed family caregiving so nobody thinks you claimed a job you did not hold.

How do I move from private duty into a Medicare-certified agency?

Treat it as a credential step rather than a rewrite. Get whatever certification your state issues, be ready for the agency's own competency evaluation, and check your state registry's rule about how much paid aide work keeps your status active, because a long gap can force you to retrain. Then change the units on your resume: visits a day instead of shift hours, a care plan instead of a task list, and reporting to a nurse instead of to a family. Expect a driving route and per-visit pay.

How do I write agency and per-diem work without looking like a job hopper?

Group it. Put the agency as the employer with a single date range, then list the case types underneath with their lengths. That turns eleven short assignments into one job with range. Where you did stay a long time on a single case, say so explicitly with the months, because in a field where turnover runs high, continuity is the rarest thing on the page and the easiest for a coordinator to value.

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