Caregiver Jobs in Los Molinos, CA
Los Molinos is an unincorporated farm community in Tehama County with about 1,600 residents, and more than one in five of them is 65 or older. Requests posted from ZIP 96055 show up above; widen the radius to Red Bluff and Corning to see more.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Los Molinos
Los Molinos has no city hall; in census terms it is a census-designated place, and Tehama County's own list files it under communities, not under cities and towns, so services come from the county and a handful of local outlets along State Highway 99E. Three addresses on that highway matter most to a caregiver: Ampla Health's Los Molinos Medical Center at number 7981, the Tehama County Library branch at 7881, and the TRAX stops at 99E and Grant, 99E and Tehama/Vina Road and the Mill Creek Center.
Plan on driving. In ACS 2020–2024, 69.4% of employed Los Molinos residents drove to work alone, public transit registered at 0.0%, and the average trip took 28.6 minutes, which tells you that many local jobs are somewhere else. Name 96055 or a nearby ZIP as your base, say you have a dependable car, and offer trips to Red Bluff; that combination stands out. Language counts for more in Los Molinos than across most of Tehama. Spanish is the home language for 47.2% of residents aged five and up, and 12.9% are far more comfortable in Spanish than in English. Bilingual applicants should put that in their opening line.
Families looking for private caregivers near Los Molinos, CA
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Types of caregiver jobs in Los Molinos
Expect requests from older residents who mean to keep living where they are: someone to help with a shower and breakfast, tidy up, sort the week's pills, and drive to the Ampla clinic or to a specialist in Red Bluff. If you have no paid experience yet, start with companionship, cooking and errands, then add personal care after a nurse assistant course.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Caregiver pay in Los Molinos: 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 (Tehama 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 (Tehama and nine other counties) | $16.50 median ($17.00 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 5,000 jobs; concentration 1.73× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Tehama County | $18.40 | CDSS; effective July 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area (Tehama 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.
About 13.7% of Los Molinos's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. The county rate over those months was 6.1% and the state's 5.3%. With a labor force near 586, Los Molinos is the kind of place EDD models from county data, so read 13.7% as an approximation; month by month the estimate moved between 12.0% and 14.7%. What it does suggest is that steady, nearby hours are valuable here. IHSS can provide them, paying Tehama County providers $18.40 an hour since July 1, 2026, $1.50 above the state minimum. Enrollment is laid out step by step in the Tehama County IHSS guide.
There is no BLS wage table for Los Molinos, or even for Tehama County on its own; the figures above cover a ten-county nonmetropolitan region. No local wage ordinance for Los Molinos or any part of Tehama County appears in UC Berkeley's Labor Center inventory, which leaves private work starting from the $16.90 state floor. A household that is your direct employer must add overtime after a nine-hour day, or once the weekly total goes over 45. Household budgets are tight: ACS puts the median household income at $35,000, though with a margin of error of $27,494 the true figure could be well above or below that, and the median gross rent is $1,113.
How to enroll as a provider in Tehama County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Tehama 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 Los Molinos
Nothing about the rules changes because Los Molinos is unincorporated. No license is required of you when a Los Molinos household is itself your employer and the tasks are non-medical. The state registry for home care aides applies to you only after you take a job with a licensed agency, and CDPH certification only for nurse aide posts in hospitals and nursing facilities. To become an IHSS provider you call the Tehama County IHSS Public Authority on (530) 527-2466, complete the online enrollment, and attend the in-person orientation you book on the enrollment site, carrying an original photo ID plus your Social Security card, the names on both matching; you pay for fingerprinting yourself. The county lists two Live Scan sites, both in Red Bluff. California law also makes anyone paid to look after an elder a mandated reporter of suspected abuse. The Tehama County page and the requirements guide have the full steps.
Training and career resources near Los Molinos
Local places that hire, connect or carry Los Molinos caregivers, each checked on its own page or in state files in October 2026.
- Ampla Health Los Molinos Medical CenterA community clinic at 7981 State Highway 99E, open on weekdays from 8 until 5, shutting for lunch between 12 and 1, (530) 384-4010. It offers primary care, pediatrics, chronic care and anticoagulation therapy, and accepts Medi-Cal managed care and Medicare. Ampla's website has an employment section, and your clients' visits will often be here.
- TRAX Routes 3A and 3BWeekday loops between Red Bluff, Los Molinos, Tehama and Gerber. On Route 3A the first bus leaves 99E and Grant at 7:45 a.m. and reaches the St. Elizabeth hospital stop at 8:05 and the Social Services stop at 8:10; the last weekday departure from Grant is 6:05 p.m. Route 3B reaches Grant from Red Bluff between 6:50 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. A Saturday 3A runs six times, 8:55 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. (530) 385-2877.
- Licensed care homes on Lee StreetCDSS files dated May 2025 list two six-bed homes in Los Molinos run by the same licensee: Treasure, an elder care home (RCFE) first licensed on October 22, 2021, and Imagine, an adult residential facility. Both employ direct care staff, which gives newcomers supervised hours in town.
- Tehama County Library, Los Molinos BranchAt 7881 State Highway 99E, (530) 384-2772, open on Tuesdays and Thursdays only, 10 to 1 and again 2 to 5. Black and white printing and copying cost $0.10 a page, cash only.
- Meals on Wheels Tehama CountyRun by the Tehama County Community Action Agency, which shares the county Social Services address on South Main Street in Red Bluff; (530) 527-6159. Home delivery is for people aged 60 or more who have stopped driving, and Partnership HealthPlan's Tehama listing names Los Molinos as one of three delivery areas.
Los Molinos in numbers
ACS 2020–2024 counts 1,604 residents in the Los Molinos census-designated place, with a margin of error of 561, so read every figure here as a rough guide. Of them, 355 (22.1%) are 65 or older and 89 have passed 85; the median resident is 38.9 years old. Older residents report disabilities at a high rate: 60.0% of those 65 and up, though the margin on that estimate is wide. Of the 666 households, 233 (35.0%) include someone 65 or older. Education, health care and social assistance employ 25.8% of working residents.
State records show how much of the care here happens at home. CDPH's facility file has one licensed health facility with a Los Molinos address, the Ampla clinic, and no hospital, nursing home or home health agency. The two Lee Street homes are the only licensed homes for elders or adults listed there by CDSS. Hospital care, the IHSS office and both Live Scan sites are in Red Bluff, so most caregiving jobs here come down to a home, a car and a route to Red Bluff; see the Red Bluff page for that city and the Corning page for the county's second city.
How to find private caregiver jobs in Los Molinos (no agency)
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Caregiver jobs near Los Molinos
Families often post from neighbouring towns. Set your travel radius in your profile and you will appear in their searches too.
Los Molinos is part of Tehama County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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
- 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 Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- Tehama County, Cities, Towns & Communities
- Tehama County IHSS Public Authority, requirements and enrollment
- California Attorney General, Live Scan locations, Tehama County
- Ampla Health, Los Molinos Medical
- TRAX, Route 3A, Route 3B and Saturday Route 3A schedules (June 2026 PDFs)
- Tehama County Library, locations and hours
- Tehama County Community Action Agency, Meals on Wheels
- Partnership HealthPlan of California, Tehama County senior resources (verified June 14, 2025)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Los Molinos CDP
Caregiver jobs in Los Molinos: frequently asked questions
Is Los Molinos a city?
No. It is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Tehama County, so there is no city government or city wage law. County departments in Red Bluff handle IHSS, adult protective services and licensing questions.
What does IHSS pay a provider in Los Molinos?
$18.40 an hour, the Tehama County rate CDSS lists from July 1, 2026. Pay is tied to the county your client lives in; for someone across a county line, that county's wage covers those hours.
Can I reach the Social Services office in Red Bluff by bus?
Yes, on weekdays. The county runs IHSS from 310 South Main Street, and TRAX Route 3A leaves the 99E and Grant stop in Los Molinos nine times a day, from 7:45 a.m., reaching its Social Services stop about 25 minutes later. Call (530) 385-2877 to confirm times before an appointment.
Are there care homes in Los Molinos that hire?
Two small licensed homes on Lee Street appear in the CDSS files: Treasure, a six-bed elder care home, and Imagine, a six-bed home for adults. Neither is a nursing home, so a CNA certificate is not required to apply, but ask each home what training it expects.
Where do I get fingerprinted for IHSS?
Only two Live Scan sites appear on the Attorney General's Tehama County list, and both are in Red Bluff: Business Connections on Pine Street and the Sheriff's office on Antelope Boulevard. Neither is in Los Molinos, so plan a trip and call first.
How do Los Molinos families find me?
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