How to hire a home health assistant

How to hire a home health assistant, step by step

Here's a step-by-step home health assistant hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a home health assistant job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new home health assistant
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   The home health assistant hiring process starts by determining what type of worker you actually need. Certain roles might require a full-time employee, whereas part-time workers or contractors can do others.

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   A home health assistant's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, home health assistants from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   Here's a comparison of home health assistant salaries for various roles:

   Type of Home Health Assistant	Description	Hourly rate
   Home Health Assistant	Home health aides help people with disabilities, chronic illness, or cognitive impairment with activities of daily living. They often help older adults who need assistance... Show more	$9-22
   Sitter	A sitter is responsible for assisting medical needs under the supervision of an attending physician, registered nurses, and other health professionals. Sitters monitor the patients' daily activities and perform medical duties such as taking the patient's temperature, administering medications, monitoring food intake, helping with bathing needs, and responding to the patients' inquiries, concerns, and requests... Show more	$9-18
   Care Provider	A care provider is responsible for assisting patients with their healthcare needs at the highest quality service. Care providers work in various medical organizations or are privately employed by a household... Show more	$8-24

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Home Health
   • Patients
   • Rehabilitation
   • Physical Therapy
   • Compassionate Care
   • CPR
   • HHA
   • Infection Control
   • Care Plan
   • Customer Service
   • Companionship
   • Vital Signs
   • In-Home Care
   • Social Work

   Check all skills

   Responsibilities:

   • Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
   • Assist bed bound and hospice patients with their ADL, assistance with NG tube feeding, providing proper care for comfort.
   • Assist the patient with ADL'S (bathing, showering, grooming, mouth/denture care, dressing and undressing).
   • Assist elderly and disable patients under direct supervision of license physician and nursing staff.
   • Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
   • Present peer to peer health education and provide administrative support to student health center including filing medical records using HIPPA compliant procedures

   More home health assistant duties

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in the home health assistant job description is a good way to get more applicants. A home health assistant salary can be affected by several factors, such as the location of the job, the level of experience, education, certifications, and the employer's prestige.

   For example, the average salary for a home health assistant in South Carolina may be lower than in Rhode Island, and an entry-level engineer typically earns less than a senior-level home health assistant. Additionally, a home health assistant with lots of experience in the field may command a higher salary as a result.

   Average home health assistant salary

   $14.98hourly

   $31,161 yearly

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   Entry-level home health assistant salary

   $20,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 18, 2026

   Average home health assistant salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	Massachusetts	$37,515	$18
   2	Connecticut	$37,269	$18
   3	New Jersey	$36,989	$18
   4	Delaware	$36,436	$18
   5	Minnesota	$35,531	$17
   6	Maryland	$33,987	$16
   7	Washington	$33,973	$16
   8	Oregon	$32,930	$16
   9	Indiana	$30,638	$15
   10	New York	$30,277	$15
   11	Michigan	$30,198	$15
   12	California	$30,154	$15
   13	Virginia	$29,812	$14
   14	Arizona	$26,337	$13
   15	North Carolina	$25,418	$12
   16	Georgia	$23,522	$11
   17	New Mexico	$23,491	$11
   18	Florida	$22,223	$11

   Average home health assistant salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	$91,281	$43.89	404
   2	Residential Home Health	$67,898	$32.64	62
   3	Encompass Health	$48,782	$23.45	441
   4	ProMedica Toledo Hospital	$41,087	$19.75	4
   5	Concierge Home Care	$40,613	$19.53	98
   6	UnitedHealth Group	$35,258	$16.95	717
   7	CarDon & Associates	$35,097	$16.87	22
   8	Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System	$34,938	$16.80	11
   9	Fairview Health Services	$34,498	$16.59	61
   10	Maine Health/maine Mental Health Partners	$33,757	$16.23	73
   11	Baptist Health Care	$32,732	$15.74	1
   12	NurseCore	$32,715	$15.73	41
   13	W Holding Company	$32,552	$15.65
   14	Kaiser Permanente	$32,457	$15.60	49
   15	Suncrest Home Health & Hospice	$32,439	$15.60	64
   16	American Senior Benefits	$32,388	$15.57	145
   17	Benedictine Health System	$32,203	$15.48	58
   18	Loretto	$32,014	$15.39	16
   19	Sunrise Senior Living Management Inc	$31,936	$15.35	71
   20	Trinity Health	$31,634	$15.21	447

4. Writing a home health assistant job description

   A home health assistant job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. Below, you can find an example of a home health assistant job description:

   Home health assistant job description example

   • 7AM-3PM
   • 3PM-11PM
   • 11PM-7AM

   
   DUTIES:

   • Helping Residents' care for their personal hygiene, including bathing, grooming etc
   • Providing Residents with housekeeping and laundry services.
   • Assist with Resident care and activities as needed.
   • Reporting any health issues to the supervising nurse.
   • Maintain confidentiality of all Resident & Facility data.

   REQUIREMENTS:

   • Valid New York State HHA Certification.
   • Ability to follow the Plan of Care precisely!
   • Must be able to work as a team member

   LOCATION:

   Haverstraw, NY

   ABOUT US:

   Northern Services Assisted Living is a cozy, friendly community located in the heart of Rockland County. Services include three nutritious meals plus snacks, creative activities and recreational opportunities, and onsite monitoring 24/7. Transportation, housekeeping and laundry, as well as case management, Medication assistance are also part of the program. Give us a call and come by to see us to learn more. NRV110

   Centers Health Care is a fully integrated post-acute care continuum offering rehabilitation and skilled nursing services in more than 45 locations covering four states. In addition, we provide special services including in-center and home dialysis, ventilator care, and care for those with Alzheimer’s. The Centers Health Care family offers Skilled Nursing, Urgent Care, Managed Care, Renal Dialysis Services, Clinical Laboratory Services, Adult Day Health Care, and Assisted Living services, as well as every level of Home Care. Centers is well known for our commitment to our employees, offering outstanding ongoing training and development, career advancement opportunities, competitive pay rates, generous compensation packages and more.

   CentersHealthCare.com/careers

   Equal Opportunity Employer –M/F/D/V

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5. Post your job

   There are various strategies that you can use to find the right home health assistant for your business:

   • Consider promoting from within or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to find candidates who meet your education requirements.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your home health assistant job on Zippia to find and attract quality home health assistant candidates.
   • Use niche websites such as healthcarejobsite, health jobs nationwide, hospitalcareers, medreps.com.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   To successfully recruit home health assistants, your first interview needs to engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. You can go into more detail about the company, the role, and the responsibilities during follow-up interviews.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents. You can move on to the technical interview if a candidate is good enough for the next step.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new home health assistant

   Once you've found the home health assistant candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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