How to become a Personal Care Worker in Health Services
Official title: Personal Care Workers in Health Services
Personal care workers in health services provide personal care and assistance to patients, older people or people with disability in hospitals and clinics, social welfare institutions or private homes.
Main tasks
- Help care recipients with personal hygiene, eating, dressing, moving about, communicating and taking medicine
- Lift and move care recipients and transport them by wheelchair or trolley
- Keep the care recipient's surroundings clean, such as cleaning rooms and changing bed linen
- Take laundry to be washed, buy daily necessities and handle medical paperwork for care recipients
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: care of the elderly and disabled adults (0921). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 19, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 15, five-year junior college (五專) 6, two-year junior college (二專) 10. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.; Technician certificate: Care work. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 178 照顧服務員. Tested at a single level (單一級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$445,000 a year
- Demand for Health and care jobs is projected at about 774,000 in 2024 and about 876,000 in 2030. (+13.2%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Personal Care Worker in Health Services?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme; Technician certificate: Care work.
How much does a Personal Care Worker in Health Services earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$445,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Personal Care Worker in Health Services a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 13.2% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Personal Care Worker in Health Services?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026