How to hire a home health care

How to hire a home health care, step by step

Here's a step-by-step home health care 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 care job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new home health care
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   The home health care 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 care's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, home health cares 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.

   This list presents home health care salaries for various positions.

   Type of Home Health Care	Description	Hourly rate
   Home Health Care	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	$11-28
   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
   Companion	A companion is responsible for assisting sick and recovered patients, as well as the elderly. Companions perform housekeeping duties, ensuring that a facility is well-maintained and safe for the use of the patients... Show more	$10-18

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Home Health
   • Patients
   • Social Work
   • Patient Care
   • Laundry Services
   • Health Care Services
   • Companionship
   • Vital Signs
   • CPR
   • Meal Prep
   • Medication Reminders
   • Physical Therapy
   • Care Plan
   • ADL

   Check all skills

   Responsibilities:

   • Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
   • Help with translation for medical appointments and overall understanding of patients medical treatments perform by therapists and physicians.
   • Assist students with first-aid and CPR when need.
   • Assist client with daily operations of ADL's.
   • Train and coordinate training for staff in CPR, bloodborne pathogens, and first aid.
   • Home and health care of father with Alzheimer's disease and mother confine to a wheelchair.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your home health care job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A home health care can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, home health cares' average salary in alabama is 51% less than in new jersey.
   • Seniority. Entry-level home health cares 62% less than senior-level home health cares.
   • Certifications. A home health care with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a home health care's salary.

   Average home health care salary

   $37,683yearly

   $18.12 hourly rate

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   Entry-level home health care salary

   $23,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 21, 2026

4. Writing a home health care job description

   A home health care 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. To help get you started, here's an example of a home health care job description:

   Home health care job description example

   + DEFINITION/PRIMARY FUNCTIONS
   
   + The Behavioral Health Care Manager provides specialty case management to high risk patients enrolled in the Health Collaborative of the Berkshires. S/he works directly with patients, patients' families, physicians, and other care managers to assess the needs and strengths of high-risk patients and develops customized, proactive care plans that support patients' optimal functional status and well-being. Data-driven monitoring of the effectiveness of the BH care plan as well as regular collaboration with the PCP team and other relevant stakeholders will be required. The BH Care Manager works collaboratively with other members of the health care team to ensure timeliness and coordination of services in compliance with documented care plan goals and objectives. Scope of practice includes but is not limited to: assessment, brief intervention and care management for patients with identified BH/SUD conditions and/or otherwise psychosocially complex issues. Encounters with patients may occur via phone or face-to-face at provider office or at patient's home, according to the needs of the patient. The BH Care Manager identifies high risk populations and provides BH care coordination and support. S/he works closely at the interface of many departmental and hospital based services as well as primary care and other specialty practices.
   
   + POSITION QUALIFICATIONS (Minimum qualifications are required unless stated otherwise.)
   
   + Experience:
   
   + 2 years experience with a chronically ill population required. Background with all age populations preferred.
   
   + Demonstrated experience in the effective assessment and engagement of individuals with BH/SUD conditions.
   
   + Experience working in a healthcare setting as a member of a professional clinical team required.
   
   + Knowledge of community resources and supports, BH/SUD treatment as well as experience in referral for treatment, support and services is required.
   
   + Experience in providing evidence-based brief interventions to individuals with BH/SUD conditions including: Motivational Interviewing, Behavioral Activation, CBT and Problem Solving Tx.
   
   + Education and Training:
   
   + Bachelor's Degree in social work or related clinical healthcare field required. Master's Degree in social work or related clinical healthcare field preferred.
   
   + License, Certification & Registration:
   
   + LCSW, LICSW, LMHC or LMFT preferred.
   
   + Other Requirements:
   
   + Ability to form rapid engagement and alliance building with patients and their families.
   
   + Ability to follow the logical management of a member's care throughout the continuum of care.
   
   + Possesses a basic understanding of applying clinical criteria when determining medical necessity.
   
   + Experience with care coordination.
   
   + Proven excellent leadership, and strong interpersonal, communication and team-building skills.
   
   + Proven collaboration & negotiation skills with providers, patients, families, insurance organizations and government agencies.
   
   + Proven ability to work independently and adjust to multiple demands and shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change with resiliency.
   
   + Computer literacy required with ability to manage multiple open applications.
   
   + Ability to maintain and monitor confidentiality of patient records.
   
   + Ability to work autonomously and with meeting goals for productivity.

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5. Post your job

   To find home health cares for your business, try out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important talent pools for any company is its current employees.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and your current work to ask if they know any home health cares they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit entry-level home health cares with the right educational background.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have more than 3.5 billion users, and they're a great place for company branding and reaching potential job candidates.

   To find home health care candidates, you can consider the following options:

   • Post your job opening on Zippia or other job search websites.
   • Use niche websites that focus on engineering and technology jobs, such as healthcarejobsite, health jobs nationwide, hospitalcareers, medreps.com.
   • Post your job on free job posting websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting home health cares requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   You should also ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match the ideal candidate profile you developed earlier. Candidates good enough for the next step can complete the technical interview.

   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 care

   Once you've found the home health care 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.

   It's also good etiquette to follow up with applicants who don't get the job by sending them an email letting them know that the position has been filled.

   After that, you can create an onboarding schedule for a new home health care. Human Resources and the hiring manager should complete Employee Action Forms. Human Resources should also ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc., and that new employee files are 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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