Caregiver Jobs in Glenn County
This page covers all of Glenn County: Orland, Willows and unincorporated places such as Hamilton City, Artois and Elk Creek. Every request with a Glenn County address lands in the list above when the family posts it.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Glenn County
The Department of Finance's estimate for January 1, 2026, is 29,031 Glenn County residents. Only two places are incorporated: Orland, with 8,632 people, and Willows, with 6,388. The remaining 14,011, close to half the county, live outside any city. The City of Willows notes that the county was formed from northern Colusa County in 1891, with Willows as its seat. Orland's own site puts Willows 15 miles south of Orland and Chico 20 miles east of it on State Route 32.
Two habits help a caregiver here. Plan on driving: ACS 2020–2024 finds 76.0% of the county's workers commuting alone by car, 12.5% sharing a ride and only 0.1% on public transit, with a mean trip of 22.9 minutes. And say which languages you speak. Spanish is the home language of 36.8% of residents aged five and up, and 13.3% of that group speak English less than very well. Name the towns you will cover and your Spanish level near the top of your profile.
Families looking for private caregivers in Glenn County
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Caregiver jobs by city and town
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- Caregiver jobs in Willowspop. 6,388
- Caregiver jobs in Orlandpop. 8,632
The communities of Glenn County
The two cities have pages of their own. For the unincorporated communities, search with the community's ZIP code.
- OrlandThe larger city, with 8,632 residents, the Butte College Glenn County Center, an HHSA Social Services office on East Walker Street and several primary care clinics, Ampla Health on Cortina Drive among them.
- WillowsA city of 6,388 and the county seat, home to the HHSA office on North Villa Avenue, the county's one skilled nursing facility and the Glenn Transit Service office.
- Hamilton CityAn unincorporated community with an Ampla Health medical clinic on Main Street and a Glenn Ride stop on the Chico run.
- ArtoisUnincorporated; a Glenn Ride stop.
- Elk CreekThe City of Willows gives an Elk Creek address about 20 miles west of Willows. It is not among Glenn Ride's listed stops, so clients here need a caregiver with a car.
- Butte City and GlennSmall unincorporated communities; plan longer, less frequent shifts.
Types of caregiver jobs in Glenn County
The county's Adult Services page spells out what IHSS covers in a Glenn County home: housekeeping, cooking and cleaning up after meals, laundry, food shopping and errands, and personal care such as bed baths, dressing, feeding, oral hygiene, grooming and help getting in and out of bed. IHSS is not a round-the-clock program, the county adds. Private families want similar help, plus company for a parent living alone. If you are new, start with errands, meals and companionship and add hands-on care once you have training.
- Senior caregiving: day-to-day help so an older adult can stay at home.
- Personal care: bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers.
- Companion care: company, errands, appointments, light help.
- Dementia care: routine-based support for memory loss.
- Respite care: cover so a family caregiver can rest or work.
- Live-in: room and board as part of the arrangement.
- Overnight: supervision through the night.
- Part-time and full-time: set by day and time block on your profile.
Caregiver pay in Glenn County: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Glenn and nine other 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 Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Glenn and nine other counties) | $16.50 median ($17.00 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 5,000 jobs; concentration 1.73× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Glenn County | $17.90 | CDSS; effective January 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Glenn and nine other counties) | $22.66 median | BLS OEWS, May 2025 (certified roles, for comparison) |
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.
No federal wage table exists for Glenn County on its own. BLS folds it into a nonmetropolitan area with Tehama, Colusa, Plumas, Lassen, Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Sierra and Nevada counties. In May 2025 that ten-county area counted 5,000 jobs in this aide occupation, paying $16.50 at the median and $17.00 on average; the CNA median was $22.66. The CDSS table sets the Glenn County IHSS provider wage at $17.90 from January 1, 2026, a dollar over California's $16.90 minimum. Neither city nor the county appears in UC Berkeley's ordinance list, which leaves $16.90 as the private-pay floor; a household that employs you itself owes time and a half for hour ten onward in a day, or past 45 in the week.
About 7.1% of Glenn County's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates, compared with 5.3% for California as a whole. The two cities differ: Willows averaged 7.5%, while Orland, at 4.5%, was below the state rate. Care for an older or disabled relative, paid through IHSS in Glenn County, is year-round work that does not depend on the farm calendar.
How to enroll as a provider in Glenn County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Glenn 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 Glenn County
Glenn County households may pay you for non-medical care with no state license involved; you would join the Home Care Aide Registry only on taking a job with a licensed agency. Under IHSS, the recipient hires, trains and supervises the provider; the Glenn County Public Authority does not employ anyone. Its recruiting page lists what a registry provider needs: a government-issued ID or driver's license, a completed Live Scan, and no conviction that could endanger a client's health, safety or finances. Visits to the Public Authority are by appointment only. Suspicions of elder or dependent-adult abuse are yours to report, by law: phone Glenn County APS on (530) 865-1178, then complete form SOC 341. The full state picture is in our California caregiver requirements guide.
Training and career resources near Glenn County
Where Glenn County caregivers train, enroll and catch a bus; every entry was read from its operator's site during October 2026.
- Butte College Glenn County Center, CNA and Home Health AideAt 1366 Cortina Drive in Orland; (530) 895-2429 in English, (530) 895-2284 in Spanish. The college's nursing assistant course runs 190 hours, 82 of theory and 108 of supervised clinical work in a nursing facility, over 12 weeks at three eight-hour days a week. Financial aid does not cover it. The center also offers free ESL classes.
- Glenn County IHSS Public Authority registryThe Public Authority recruits registry providers and refers them to IHSS consumers, who choose from its lists. Registry work can include EBUPS, the emergency backup provider service: short, urgent assignments that may pay a differential. Ask for a registry application on (530) 865-6148.
- IHSS Career Pathways, Relias courses and CPREnrolled IHSS providers can sign up for Career Pathways classes and be paid for the time. The Public Authority also offers free Relias online courses, such as nutrition, mobility, first aid and dementia, with certificates but no pay, and two CPR classes a year under its agreement with SEIU. Get on the list at (530) 330-5453.
- Glenn Ride and Glenn Transit ServiceGlenn Ride runs seven round trips each weekday and three on Saturday between Willows and Chico, stopping at Artois, Orland and Hamilton City. Transit office: 258 N. Butte Street, Willows; (530) 934-6700.
Glenn County in numbers
ACS 2020–2024 counts 4,893 Glenn County residents aged 65 or older, 17.2% of the population, and 588 who are 85 or older. Over a third of residents 65 and up (35.5%) report a disability, 33.8% of the county's 9,810 households include someone that age, and roughly one household in nine consists of a single person 65-plus. Households have a $67,139 median income and median gross rent is $1,120.
The CDPH facility file dated September 16, 2026, lists no general acute care hospital anywhere in Glenn County. It lists one skilled nursing facility, Willows Post Acute on North Crawford Street in Willows (79 beds), and primary care clinics in Willows, Orland and Hamilton City. Any hospital stay is therefore outside the county, and much of the recovery afterward takes place at home. The Orland and Willows pages have town detail; next door are Butte County, Colusa County and Tehama County.
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Useful reading before you apply
How to become a caregiver in California: requirements, HCA registry, IHSS and CNA explained
Which rules apply to a caregiver in California depends on who pays them. A plain-language map of the Home Care Aide Registry, IHSS provider enrolment and CNA/HHA certification, with the official sources.
How much do caregivers make in California and Arizona? BLS, IHSS and minimum wage (2026)
Median hourly pay for home health and personal care aides by metro area from the May 2025 BLS survey, county IHSS wages, state minimum wages, and how private rates relate to them.
Private caregiver jobs near you: how to find them without an agency
Where families who hire directly actually look, how to be found, what to put in writing, and the legal basics of being a household employee.
Caregiver interview preparation: questions families ask and how to answer them
What a family interview for private caregiving work really covers, the questions to expect, the questions you should ask, and what to bring.
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area
- BLS OEWS, May 2025 metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area definitions
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- County of Glenn, Adult Services (IHSS and APS), Wayback capture February 13, 2026
- County of Glenn, IHSS Public Authority recruiting page, Wayback capture October 8, 2024
- County of Glenn, Public Authority FAQ, Wayback capture April 14, 2026
- County of Glenn, IHSS provider and recipient training, Wayback capture April 14, 2026
- County of Glenn, Public Transit and Transportation, Wayback capture May 2, 2026
- Butte College, Glenn County Center
- Butte College, Nursing programs (CNA/HHA certificate)
- Passages Caregiver Resource Center, eligibility and counties served
- City of Willows, history of Willows
- City of Orland, history and location
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date September 16, 2026)
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Glenn County
Caregiver jobs in Glenn County: frequently asked questions
Do I need Spanish for caregiving work in Glenn County?
Not always, but it widens your options. The ACS 2020–2024 estimate is 36.8% Spanish at home across the county and 45.9% in Orland. State honestly on your profile how well you speak, read and write each language.
How much does IHSS pay in Glenn County?
CDSS lists $17.90 for Glenn County providers, in force since New Year's Day 2026. Pay is tied to the client's home county: work for someone living in Butte or Tehama County and that county's IHSS wage applies.
Who do I call about IHSS work in Glenn County?
For the provider registry, (530) 865-6148. For Public Authority training and records, (530) 330-5453. To reach the IHSS social workers, for example after an injury on the job, the Public Authority lists (530) 865-6164. CDSS runs the statewide timesheet help desk, (866) 376-7066.
Can I train as a nursing assistant without leaving Glenn County?
Yes. Butte College teaches its CNA course at the Glenn County Center on Cortina Drive in Orland as well as on its main campus: 190 hours over 12 weeks, including 108 clinical hours. Call the center on (530) 895-2429 to ask about the next start date.
How do Glenn County families find me on CaregiverConnect?
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