Home Allied Health Assistant Resume template
Allied Health Assistant resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what allied health assistants actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most allied health assistants should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Allied Health Assistant with hands-on experience supporting physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology programs across hospital, aged care and community settings. Works under clinician supervision to run prescribed exercise and rehabilitation programs, prepare treatment areas and record patient progress accurately. Calm with patients, reliable with documentation, and comfortable working in a busy multidisciplinary team.
Key skills
- Patient care and support
- Rehabilitation and therapy program delivery
- Infection control and hygiene
- Medical administration and patient records
- Cliniko and Halaxy practice management software
- Cerner PowerChart
- HICAPS
- Microsoft Office
- Manual handling and client transfers
- Written communication and progress notes
- Empathy and interpersonal care
- Attention to detail
- Physical stamina and dexterity
Experience: example bullet points
- Prepared and reset treatment areas and equipment between sessions, keeping rooms ready so supervising therapists could move between patients without delays.
- Ran prescribed exercise and rehabilitation circuits with patients under physiotherapist direction, correcting technique and reporting any change in tolerance back to the treating clinician.
- Supported group therapy sessions of up to eight participants, setting up equipment, prompting participants through activities and keeping sessions running to schedule.
- Recorded progress notes in Cliniko at the end of each session and flagged changes in mobility, mood or pain to the supervising clinician the same day.
- Maintained therapy equipment and treatment resources, coordinating repairs and restocking consumables so shared equipment stayed available.
- Followed infection control procedures across shared equipment and treatment surfaces, including cleaning logs and hand hygiene between every patient contact.
- Assisted patients with transfers and mobility practice using safe manual handling techniques, adjusting approach for clients using frames, wheelchairs and hoists.
Education
Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance (or Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance), plus current first aid, a National Police Check and, where relevant to the setting, an NDIS Worker Screening Check or Working with Children Check.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Allied Health Assistant
- Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance
- Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance
- NDIS Worker Screening Check
- National Police Check
- Working with Children Check
- first aid certificate
- manual handling
- infection control
- person-centred care
- progress notes
- Cliniko
- Halaxy
- Cerner PowerChart
- HICAPS
- aged care
- community health
- rehabilitation
- physiotherapy
- occupational therapy
- speech pathology
- AHPRA-registered supervision
- multidisciplinary team
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.