About CareJobs.Now
CareJobs.Now is a free, hosted, read-only MCP server for searching US healthcare openings and employer-posted pay. It also provides job-market and employer information across its listed sources.
Key features
- 01Search jobs by role, location and shift
- 02View posted pay by job type
- 03Explore openings by state
- 04Review employer hiring details
- 05Read-only access without an API key
Use cases
- 01Find night-shift nursing jobs with pay
- 02Compare posted pay for healthcare roles
- 03Check hiring employers in a state
MCP support
Exposes job, pay, market and employer search tools to MCP clients through a public Streamable HTTP endpoint. It is read-only and requires no authentication.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://carejobs.now/api/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http now-carejobs-healthcare-jobs https://carejobs.now/api/mcp{"mcpServers":{"now-carejobs-healthcare-jobs":{"type":"http","url":"https://carejobs.now/api/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"now-carejobs-healthcare-jobs":{"type":"http","url":"https://carejobs.now/api/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"now-carejobs-healthcare-jobs":{"type":"http","url":"https://carejobs.now/api/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"now-carejobs-healthcare-jobs":{"serverUrl":"https://carejobs.now/api/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
6| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | enum | No | Kind of job, one of: 'nurses' (Nurses), 'nurse-practitioners' (NPs & PAs), 'physicians' (Doctors), 'nursing-assistants' (CNAs & PCTs), 'caregivers' (Caregivers), 'therapy-rehab' (Therapy & rehab), 'mental-health' (Mental health), 'pharmacy' (Pharmacy), 'imaging' (Imaging), 'lab' (Lab), 'surgical-techs' (Surgical), 'emts-paramedics' (EMS), 'medical-assistants' (Medical assistants), 'dental' (Dental), 'admin' (Front desk & admin), 'allied-health' (Allied health), 'ai-training' (AI training).nurses | nurse-practitioners | physicians | nursing-assistants | caregivers | therapy-rehab | mental-health | pharmacy | imaging | lab | surgical-techs | emts-paramedics | medical-assistants | dental | admin | allied-health | ai-training |
| sort | enum | No | 'mixed' (the board's order, employers interleaved), 'newest' or 'highest_pay'.mixed | newest | highest_pay |
| limit | integer | No | How many jobs to return (1 to 25). |
| query | string | No | Words every job must carry in its title, place, department or schedule, e.g. 'ICU', 'night', 'travel', 'pediatric', 'Houston'. |
| state | string | No | A US state: its two-letter code (e.g. 'TX', 'NY') or its name ('Texas'). |
| remote | boolean | No | Only remote (work-from-home) jobs, such as telehealth, case management, coding and billing. |
| employer | string | No | An employer (or AI-training program or job board): its slug, e.g. 'hca-healthcare', 'kaiser-permanente', or its name. list_healthcare_employers finds the slugs. |
| min_hourly_usd | integer | No | Only jobs whose posted hourly ceiling reaches this many US dollars. |
Details
From the project READMECareJobs.Now MCP server
A free, hosted, read-only Model Context Protocol server for US healthcare jobs. It lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients search the open jobs that CareJobs.Now reads every day from the career sites of 258 hospitals, health systems, clinic groups and care companies (170,000+ openings), with the pay each employer posts. Every answer links to the job's page on CareJobs.Now, where the user applies on the employer's own site.
- Endpoint:
https://carejobs.now/api/mcp - Transport: Streamable HTTP (legacy clients that open with
initializeare served too) - Auth: none. Public, read-only, no API key, free.
- Official MCP Registry:
now.carejobs/healthcare-jobs - Docs and data: https://carejobs.now/data
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search_healthcare_jobs | Search open US healthcare jobs by words (a unit, a shift, a town), kind of job, state, shift and pay. Returns title, employer, kind of job, posted pay, shift, place and a link to the job. |
get_healthcare_pay | Posted hourly pay by kind of healthcare job (median and typical range, with the number of rates and employers behind it). |
get_healthcare_job_market | How many healthcare jobs are open, how many were first listed in the last 7 days, and who is hiring. |
get_healthcare_jobs_by_state | Open jobs and employers per US state, or for one state by kind of job. |
list_healthcare_employers | The hospitals, health systems, clinic groups and care companies whose jobs CareJobs.Now reads. |
get_healthcare_employer | One employer: what it is, where it hires, its open jobs and the pay it posts. |
Connect
Claude (claude.ai, Claude Desktop) and ChatGPT: add a custom connector with the URL https://carejobs.now/api/mcp (no authentication).
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http carejobs https://carejobs.now/api/mcp
Claude Code plugin (server plus the skill, one step):
/plugin marketplace add yumaheymans/carejobs-mcp
/plugin install carejobs@carejobs
Gemini CLI extension:
gemini extensions install https://github.com/yumaheymans/carejobs-mcp
Cursor, VS Code and other clients that take a URL (mcp.json):
{
"mcpServers": {
"carejobs": { "url": "https://carejobs.now/api/mcp" }
}
}
Clients that only run local (stdio) servers can bridge to it with mcp-remote:
{
"mcpServers": {
"carejobs": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://carejobs.now/api/mcp"] }
}
}
Agent skill
skills/healthcare-job-search/SKILL.md is an Agent Skill (Claude Code, Claude apps and other agents that read SKILL.md) that teaches an assistant to answer healthcare job and pay questions with this server or the public JSON endpoints.
Example prompts
- "Find night-shift ICU nurse jobs in Boston with posted pay."
- "What do CNA jobs pay in Texas?"
- "Which hospitals are hiring respiratory therapists in Ohio?"
Data
The same figures are free as JSON and CSV, no key needed: /roles.json (open jobs by kind of job and employer), /pay.json (posted hourly pay by kind of job) and /pay.csv. A dated open dataset is on Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.23395728 (CC BY 4.0). An llms.txt describes the site for AI assistants.
About
CareJobs.Now is a free job board for everyone who works in US healthcare. The server is hosted by CareJobs.Now; this repository holds its documentation and its server.json for the MCP Registry. Questions: [email protected].
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