Caregiver Jobs in Fortuna, CA
Fortuna, a Humboldt County city of 12,185 residents, has a hospital, a nursing home, two licensed elder care homes and an adult day center at Fortuna addresses. The postings above update as families publish them.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Fortuna
Fortuna's licensed care employers sit on a handful of streets. The CDPH facility list for October 2026 places Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital (35 licensed beds) on Renner Drive and Fortuna Rehabilitation & Wellness Center, a skilled nursing facility with 104 beds, on Newburg Road. Further along Newburg Road, at number 3200, CDPH lists both the Humboldt Senior Resource Center's adult day health center and the Fortuna site of Redwood Coast PACE. The May 2025 CDSS licensing file adds two elder care homes: Sequoia Springs Senior Living Community on Redwood Way, licensed for 92 residents, and First Choice Care Home on 10th Street, licensed for 14. Neither state file lists a home health agency, hospice or licensed home care organization with a Fortuna address.
So a Fortuna caregiver has two tracks. Nursing assistants can apply to the hospital, the nursing home and the day programs; anyone can take private work in Fortuna households, where older residents make up 17.3% of the population. Your profile should name the track you are after, the Fortuna hours you can keep, and any Spanish: ACS 2020–2024 puts Spanish in 18.5% of Fortuna homes (counting residents five or older), well above McKinleyville's 4.6%.
Families looking for private caregivers near Fortuna, CA
Real postings from families on CaregiverConnect, matched to Fortuna by distance.
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No family within 50 miles has an open posting today. Nearest current postings: Westport, CA, about 65 miles away. A profile created now is visible to Humboldt County families as soon as they join, and they can send you a direct request.
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Types of caregiver jobs in Fortuna
The ACS finds roughly 640 one-person Fortuna households headed by someone 65-plus, 525 of them women, and 35.1% of older residents report a disability. Families usually post for help getting up and dressed, meals, shopping, a ride to a clinic on Renner Drive or Rohnerville Road, and someone to sit with a parent after a hospital stay. Without experience, start with companionship and errands; a CNA certificate opens the Newburg Road nursing home and hospital jobs.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Caregiver pay in Fortuna: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake and Mendocino counties); private rates on CaregiverConnect are agreed between each caregiver and family and are not tracked by any agency.
| Measure | Hourly | Source and coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Home health and personal care aides, North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake and Mendocino counties) | $16.74 median ($17.16 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 10,140 jobs; concentration 3.34× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Humboldt County | $18.40 | CDSS; effective January 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
Who is the employer. A family that hires you directly is your employer under California's Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. The state minimum wage ($16.90 an hour from 1 January 2026; some cities set more, for example $17.75 in the City of San Diego) is the legal floor, and a personal attendant earns overtime at 1.5× after 9 hours in a day or 45 in a week. The main exceptions are IHSS recipients and an employer's own parent, spouse or child. Source: California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ.
About 4.0% of Fortuna's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. The monthly figures stayed between 3.3% and 4.3%, under both Humboldt County's 5.2% and California's 5.3% for the same period. EDD's city estimates for a labor force of roughly 5,400 lean on county data, so read the number as a guide. What matters more for a caregiver is pay: IHSS work for a Humboldt client brings $18.40 an hour; enrollment steps are in our Humboldt County IHSS guide.
A Fortuna wage ordinance would show up in UC Berkeley Labor Center's California table, and none does; private Fortuna employers therefore start at the state's $16.90. The aide wages BLS reports for May 2025 cover the whole North Coast area, not Fortuna alone. With a median household income of $62,289 and median gross rent of $1,168 in the ACS, Fortuna rents run below McKinleyville's $1,607 median; even so, weigh any private offer against the IHSS figure before you accept.
How to enroll as a provider in Humboldt County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Humboldt County guide. IHSS wages for every county we cover, with effective dates, are in the IHSS pay by county guide.
How the public numbers relate to private rates, and what affects them, is covered in the caregiver pay guide.
Caregiver requirements in California, applied to Fortuna
Fortuna households can pay you for non-medical help without any state license on your part. Registry listing is compulsory for aides of licensed home care organizations, yet no such organization is licensed in Fortuna, so the registry only comes up if you work for an agency based elsewhere. The skilled nursing facility and Redwood Memorial hire certified nursing assistants; staff at the two elder care homes work under each home's CDSS license. IHSS providers enroll with Humboldt County DHHS in Eureka and complete a Live Scan, which you can do locally: the Fortuna Police Department fingerprints by appointment (707-725-1423 or 707-725-1424) for $35 plus DOJ and FBI fees, and you must bring the Live Scan form from the agency asking for it and a photo ID. The county's Fortuna social services office, 3306 Renner Drive, handles Medi-Cal and CalFresh. Rules in full: California caregiver requirements.
Training and career resources near Fortuna
Courses, employers and transport for Fortuna caregivers, taken from their own pages and from state data in October 2026.
- Fortuna Rehabilitation & Wellness CenterCDPH lists this skilled nursing facility at 2321 Newburg Road with 104 licensed beds, the largest care employer in the city by bed count; (707) 725-4467.
- Sequoia Springs Senior Living CommunityAn RCFE at 2401 Redwood Way, licensed by CDSS for 92 residents in the May 2025 file; (707) 726-0111.
- College of the Redwoods, Certified Nursing Assistant (HO 110)HO 110 Basic Patient Care runs one semester and leads to the state certification exam; the college quotes $46 per unit for its 6 units and hosts NATAP testing through Credentia. The Redwood Transit System has a College of the Redwoods stop.
- Eureka Adult School, nurse assistant courseCDPH-approved training with 60 theory hours and a minimum of 100 clinical hours in a skilled nursing facility, taught Monday to Friday in an evening block that ends at 8:15, with a July and August break.
- Redwood Transit System in FortunaFortuna stops on the September 7, 2026 schedule include 11th St & N St, Fortuna Blvd & Smith Ln, Redwood Village Shops, Redwood Memorial and the Fortuna Park & Ride. Northbound weekday buses call at Redwood Memorial 17 times, from 5:43 a.m. to 8:50 p.m.; Saturday buses also run. Cash fare $2.00.
- Fortuna Police Department, Live ScanFingerprinting by appointment only on 707-725-1423 or 707-725-1424, at $35 plus DOJ and FBI fees per form. The Attorney General lists the site at 2600 Newburg Road.
Fortuna in numbers
Fortuna's Department of Finance count for January 1, 2026 is 12,185. Half of Fortuna's residents are younger than 37.4 in the ACS 2020–2024. Older residents number 2,134 (17.3%), 233 of them 85 or older; 1,528 of 4,925 households include someone 65-plus. The survey places 251 people in group quarters. Commutes run longer than McKinleyville's 21-minute average: 71.2% of workers drive alone, 3.4% ride public transportation, 11.1% work from home and the mean trip is 24.8 minutes. No vehicle is available to 5.6% of Fortuna households; the poverty rate is 18.2%; and schools, health care and social assistance employ 22.8% of Fortuna's working residents.
Primary care sites in town include two federally funded health centers on the HRSA list, Open Door's Fortuna Community Health Center at 3750 Rohnerville Road and Redwoods Rural Health Center at 930 South Fortuna Boulevard, plus Providence Family Practice next to the hospital on Renner Drive. For more listings, see Rio Dell, Eureka and the Humboldt County page.
How to find private caregiver jobs in Fortuna (no agency)
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Caregiver jobs near Fortuna
Families often post from neighbouring towns. Set your travel radius in your profile and you will appear in their searches too.
Fortuna is part of Humboldt County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
- Caregiver jobs in Rio Dell, CA6 mi
- Caregiver jobs in Eureka, CA13 mi
- Caregiver jobs in Arcata, CA20 mi
- Caregiver jobs in McKinleyville, CA25 mi
Elsewhere in Humboldt County: Redway
Useful reading
How to become a caregiver in California: requirements, HCA registry, IHSS and CNA explained · How much do caregivers make in California and Arizona? BLS, IHSS and minimum wage (2026) · Private caregiver jobs near you: how to find them without an agency · Caregiver interview preparation: questions families ask and how to answer them
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- HRSA, Health Center Service Delivery and Look-Alike Sites file
- City of Fortuna Police Department, Live Scan Fingerprinting (via r.jina.ai reader; direct fetch blocked)
- California Attorney General, Live Scan locations, Humboldt County
- Humboldt Transit Authority, Redwood Transit System schedule effective September 7, 2026
- College of the Redwoods, Certified Nursing Assistant
- Eureka Adult School, Certified Nursing Assistant program
- Humboldt County DHHS, social services office locations (TAP page)
- Humboldt County DHHS, IHSS Provider Enrollment
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05 and B26001, Fortuna city
Caregiver jobs in Fortuna: frequently asked questions
Which Fortuna employers hire caregivers and CNAs?
The state lists a 104-bed skilled nursing facility and a 35-bed hospital, two licensed elder care homes (92 and 14 places), and an adult day health center and PACE site at 3200 Newburg Road. Private households hire too, and their requests appear on this page.
Can I get my Live Scan done in Fortuna?
Yes. The police department fingerprints by appointment; call 707-725-1423 or 707-725-1424. The city charges $35 per form plus the DOJ and FBI fees, and you need a photo ID and the Live Scan form from whoever requested it.
What is the IHSS rate for Fortuna clients?
Fortuna clients are Humboldt County IHSS recipients, so their providers earn the county's $18.40, which CDSS shows as effective January 1, 2026. A provider who lives in Fortuna but cares for a client in another county is paid that county's rate.
Is unemployment high in Fortuna?
No. EDD's 12-month average to August 2026 is 4.0%, below the county's 5.2% and the state's 5.3%, and no month went above 4.3%.
Does it help to speak Spanish in Fortuna?
Often. Of Fortuna residents five or older, ACS records 21.2% speaking something besides English in the home, and Spanish accounts for 18.5 points of that. Bilingual caregivers should put that near the top of the profile, before experience.
Where do Fortuna families post jobs?
On the Fortuna family page; every post there is shown here as well. Signing up is free for caregivers, and the platform takes nothing from what a Fortuna household pays you.
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