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San Fernando, California · Los Angeles County
Caregiver Jobs in San Fernando, CA
San Fernando is an independent city of 23,976 in Los Angeles County with its own police department, trolley and senior lunch program. Requests from families in ZIP 91340 are shown above whenever they are published.
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For a city of its size, San Fernando has an unusual number of home health and hospice offices. CDPH's October 16, 2026 file lists 12 home health agencies and four hospices with San Fernando addresses in 91340, many of them in one office building on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and others on Maclay Avenue, Brand Boulevard and San Fernando Road. Among them are Rinaldi Home Health Care, Access TLC Home Health Care, Salud Home Health Care, Dedicated Home Health Care, Preferred Care Hospice and Alpha Plus Hospice. Most of these agencies send certified home health aides and nurses into clients' homes, so the jobs are in private houses even when the employer is an office.
That file has no hospital or skilled nursing facility anywhere in the ZIP. Residential work centers on Mother Gertrude Home, a CDSS-licensed elder care home on Laurel Canyon Boulevard with 97 places, plus one six-bed home. Two dialysis centers on S. Brand Boulevard and several community clinics, including Northeast Valley Health Corporation's site on San Fernando Road, generate escort and appointment-day requests. Family postings from 91340 are added above as they arrive.
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Types of caregiver jobs
Types of caregiver jobs in San Fernando
Expect requests for help around the city's senior meal at Las Palmas Park, rides and waiting time on dialysis days, a few weeks of daily support while a home health agency's nurse visits after an illness, and end-of-life sitting alongside a hospice team. Because Spanish is the home language for most residents, bilingual companions fit many of these requests. If you are just starting out, a private companion job here can sit next to a part-time aide shift with one of the local agencies once you hold a certificate.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Pay
Caregiver pay in San Fernando: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA (Los Angeles and Orange 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, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA (Los Angeles and Orange counties) | $16.50 median ($17.25 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 385,530 jobs; concentration 2.22× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Los Angeles County | $19.64 | CDSS; effective January 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA (Los Angeles and Orange counties) | $22.78 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 5.0% of San Fernando's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. The county's rate over those months was 5.4% and California's 5.3%; in San Fernando the monthly figures moved between 4.6% and 5.7%, around an average labor force of roughly 12,600. What a caregiver earns here depends mostly on the employer. IHSS pays $19.64 an hour for a San Fernando client, and how to enroll is set out in the IHSS guide for the county.
San Fernando is a separate city, and the City of Los Angeles minimum wage does not cover work inside it: UC Berkeley's Labor Center inventory has no San Fernando entry, so private care here starts at California's $16.90. When you work as a family's own personal attendant, hours past nine in a day, or past 45 in a week, earn overtime. ACS reports a median household income of $83,024 and median gross rent $1,748; most homes (61.6%) are owner-occupied.
How to enroll as a provider in Los Angeles County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Los Angeles 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.
Rules
Caregiver requirements in California, applied to San Fernando
San Fernando sets no separate licensing rule for caregivers. No state license is needed when a household hires you for non-medical help. The home health agencies on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and elsewhere in 91340 need certified home health aides for aide visits, and elder care homes such as Mother Gertrude Home, licensed by CDSS, set their own hiring requirements. Home care organizations must see your Home Care Aide Registry listing before placing you. IHSS providers enroll with DPSS and complete orientation and fingerprints; one Live Scan location on the Attorney General's list is the San Fernando Police Department on First Street. Caregivers are mandated reporters, so any sign that a San Fernando senior is being harmed has to be reported. Read the Los Angeles County page and the caregiver requirements guide for the full set of rules.
Local resources
Training and career resources near San Fernando
Training programs, fingerprint sites and local employers for San Fernando caregivers, each checked in a state file or on the organization's page in October 2026.
- Los Angeles Mission College, CNA and home health aideOn the CDPH list of approved CNA programs, the college appears at 13356 Eldridge Avenue, Sylmar 91342, (818) 364-7600. Its career center sheet lists a Certificate of Achievement in Certified Nurse Assistant & Home Health Aide.
- Nursing Career Training InstituteA CDPH-approved nurse assistant training program at 10243 Sepulveda Boulevard, #200, Mission Hills 91345; (818) 485-1455. Compare schedule, total cost and exam support with the college option.
- Home health agencies and hospices in 91340CDPH's file lists 12 home health agencies and four hospices, including eight offices at 11565 Laurel Canyon Boulevard alone. Agencies hire certified home health aides; hospices also hire aides for visits.
- Mother Gertrude HomeA residential care facility for the elderly at 11320 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, licensed by CDSS for 97 residents; (818) 898-1546.
- Live Scan at San Fernando PDSupport Services at 910 First Street takes fingerprint appointments on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. and lists a $25 rolling fee before state fees, per the Attorney General's list. Two private sites on First Street and N. Maclay Avenue are also listed.
The area
San Fernando in numbers
On January 1, 2026, San Fernando had 23,976 residents, according to the Department of Finance. In ACS 2020–2024 San Fernando's median age is 37.5, and the survey counts 3,213 people aged 65 or over (13.6%), including 267 who are 85 or older. More than a third of the city's 6,216 households (2,173, or 35.0%) have a member 65 or older, and about 249 are seniors living by themselves. One in three residents 65 and up (33.3%) reports a disability. At home, 70.5% of people five and older speak Spanish, and 28.9% are Spanish speakers with limited English. The poverty rate is 9.9%.
Workers average 29.8 minutes to the job; 77.1% drive alone and 2.9% use public transit. Of San Fernando's working residents, 21.2% hold jobs in education, health care or social assistance. Inside the city, the free San Fernando Trolley runs a 28-stop fixed route, and Mission City Transit gives curb-to-curb rides. Nearby pages: Santa Clarita, Burbank, Glendale and Simi Valley.
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Guides
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
Sources (checked 2026-10-20):
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances (modified September 30, 2026)
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- LA County DPSS, In-Home Supportive Services
- City of San Fernando, Senior Services (Las Palmas Park)
- City of San Fernando, Mission City Transit
- City of San Fernando, San Fernando Trolley
- Los Angeles Mission College Career Center, Major Sheet: Certified Nursing Assistant
- CDPH, Certified Nurse Assistant training programs
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, facility files (May 25, 2025) and current facility layer (October 19, 2026)
- California Attorney General, Live Scan locations, Los Angeles County
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, San Fernando city
Questions
Caregiver jobs in San Fernando: frequently asked questions
Is unemployment high in San Fernando?
No. EDD's mean for August 2025 through August 2026 comes to about 5.0%, which sits below the county figure of 5.4% and the statewide 5.3%.
Is San Fernando part of the City of Los Angeles?
No. It is its own incorporated city, so Los Angeles city wage rules do not apply here. With no local ordinance in UC Berkeley's inventory, private caregivers in San Fernando are owed at least the state's $16.90.
Which home health agencies are in San Fernando?
CDPH lists 12 in ZIP 91340, among them Rinaldi Home Health Care, Access TLC, Arming Home Health, Astra, Salud, Vesta and Dedicated Home Health Care. Aide visits from a home health agency call for a certified home health aide, so ask each office about openings.
Does San Fernando have a hospital or skilled nursing facility?
Not in CDPH's current file for 91340. The largest licensed residential care site in the ZIP is Mother Gertrude Home, with 97 places under a CDSS elder care license.
What is the IHSS wage for a San Fernando client?
$19.64 an hour. That is the county rate in the CDSS table, in effect from January 1, 2026, and it is paid only for hours DPSS approves for the client.
Which CNA programs serve San Fernando caregivers?
Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar offers a CNA and home health aide certificate, and Nursing Career Training Institute in Mission Hills is also on CDPH's approved list.
How do San Fernando families find me here?
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