Home Care HR Specialist & Recruiter
About The Position
CareWorks Health Services is looking for a bilingual HR Specialist & Recruiter who enjoys working with people, moves fast, follows through, and gets results. The Home Care HR Specialist & Recruiter owns caregiver recruiting strategy, sourcing channels, community partnerships, recruiting campaigns, and the in-office hiring pipeline. This role partners closely with staffing to recruit caregivers based on current client needs, mentors the virtual recruiter, and conducts final interviews, candidate selection, in-person hiring steps, and offer extensions before handing successful candidates off to the HR Coordinator for onboarding and compliance. The why behind this role is simple: strong recruiting gives families dependable caregivers, helps clients remain safely at home, and gives our team the people it needs to deliver excellent care. We look for someone who lives our values of Integrity, Accountability, Empathy, Curiosity, Teamwork, Service, and Growth and who is motivated to build a high-quality caregiver workforce that supports both our clients and our company’s growth.
Requirements
- Bilingual: English and Vietnamese
- 5+ years of experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, human resources, or staffing, with demonstrated success in high-volume recruiting and candidate selection.
- 3+ years of experience in non-medical home care, with a strong understanding of caregiver recruiting, staffing challenges, client matching, and home care operations.
- Hands-on experience with WellSky Personal Care (formerly ClearCare) and applicant tracking/recruiting systems such as Paylocity, Hireology, myCNAjobs, or similar platforms.
- Extensive working knowledge of California Wage Order 15, California wage-and-hour requirements, meal/rest period rules, overtime, sick leave, leaves of absence, hiring practices, and other employment laws affecting home care employees.
- Strong working knowledge of California Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act/Home Care Services Bureau requirements, including Home Care Aide registration, Live Scan/background-clearance requirements, training, personnel documentation, and caregiver compliance.
- Experience building and managing caregiver recruiting campaigns, sourcing strategies, job boards, referral programs, community partnerships, and recruiting funnels.
Nice To Haves
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or overseeing recruiters and reviewing recruiting KPIs and conversion metrics.
- Strong understanding of how recruiting, staffing, compliance, and client needs work together in a fast-paced home care agency.
- SHRM certification
Responsibilities
- Conduct final in-person interviews and make authorized, formal job offers regarding wages, hours, and employment terms.
- Ensure all recruiting, hiring, and staffing decisions strictly adhere to California-specific home care regulations, including daily/weekly overtime thresholds, mandatory meal/rest breaks, and travel-time or mileage compensation.
- Act as the primary face of HR for the local team, confidently answering caregiver questions regarding labor policies, disputes, pay structures, and employment rights.
- Track hiring KPIs, identify pipeline bottlenecks, evaluate recruiting sources, improve conversion rates, and make sure recruiting activity produces caregivers who can actually be placed with clients.
- Build recruiting campaigns, manage job boards and recruiting platforms, develop community partnerships, and continually improve where and how CareWorks finds qualified caregivers.
- Take over once qualified candidates reach the office, conduct structured final interviews, assess fit and reliability, complete in-person hiring steps, extend offers, and transition hires into onboarding.
- Coach the virtual recruiter on phone screening, candidate messaging, follow-up, reference checks, sourcing activity, and pipeline management.
- Coordinate and lead interactive, in-person onboarding and orientation sessions that welcome new hires and clearly communicate agency expectations.
- Partner with the remote HR Coordinator to maintain seamless employee files, delegating administrative paperwork while maintaining ultimate legal responsibility for the workforce.
- Work closely with schedulers to understand current and upcoming staffing needs by city, shift, availability, experience, and client preference, then adjust recruiting efforts accordingly.
Benefits
- Competitive pay based on experience
- Bonus opportunities based on company and your performance - up to 20% of annual pay
- Paid time off- 10 days per year
- Paid company holidays: 6 days
- Health insurance benefits: Company pays 50% Silver Plan
- Dental insurance: company pays 100% dental premiums
- Medical concierge Membership: 100% paid by company
- Professional development and leadership growth opportunities: FredPryor Learning and internal training opportunities
- Opportunity to directly influence company growth, caregiver quality, and recruiting strategy
- Collaborative team environment with support from leadership, HR, recruiting, and staffing
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
