LlamaIndex Tools Integration: CareJobs.Now

CareJobs.Now is a free US healthcare job board. It reads the open jobs of more than 2,000 hospitals, health systems, clinic groups and care companies: nurses, CNAs, doctors, NPs and PAs, therapists, imaging and lab techs, pharmacy, caregivers, front office and more.

This tool spec gives a LlamaIndex agent live access to those jobs, their posted pay, the employers and the job-market numbers, through the public CareJobs.Now remote MCP endpoint. No API key or account is needed. Every job in an answer links to its page on CareJobs.Now, where the person applies.

This package is maintained in its own repository and published to PyPI independently of the llama_index monorepo.

Installation

pip install llama-index-tools-carejobs

Usage with an agent

from llama_index.tools.carejobs import CareJobsToolSpec
from llama_index.core.agent.workflow import FunctionAgent
from llama_index.llms.openai import OpenAI

carejobs_tool = CareJobsToolSpec()

agent = FunctionAgent(
    tools=carejobs_tool.to_tool_list(),
    llm=OpenAI(model="gpt-4.1"),
)

print(
    await agent.run(
        "Find night-shift ICU nursing jobs in Texas that pay at least $45 an hour, "
        "and tell me which employers post the most for nurses."
    )
)

Available functions

The kind argument takes one of nurses, nurse-practitioners, physicians, nursing-assistants, caregivers, therapy-rehab, mental-health, pharmacy, imaging, lab, surgical-techs, emts-paramedics, medical-assistants, dental, admin, allied-health or ai-training. The state argument takes a two-letter code (TX) or a name (Texas). Employers are identified by a slug such as kaiser-permanente or by name.

Example without an agent

from llama_index.tools.carejobs import CareJobsToolSpec

carejobs_tool = CareJobsToolSpec()

print(carejobs_tool.search_healthcare_jobs(kind="nurses", state="TX", limit=5))
print(carejobs_tool.get_healthcare_pay(kind="nursing-assistants"))
print(carejobs_tool.get_healthcare_employer("kaiser-permanente"))

Each function returns the service's readable summary as a string. To get the structured data that comes with it, call the tool by name:

result = carejobs_tool.call_tool(
    "get_healthcare_jobs_by_state", {"state": "OH", "kind": "nursing-assistants"}
)
print(result.text)  # the readable summary
print(result.data["open_jobs"])  # the structured answer (a dict)

Errors

If CareJobs.Now cannot be reached or rejects a request (for example an unknown employer or kind), the function raises CareJobsError with the service's message. LlamaIndex agents hand that message back to the model, which can correct the call.

Notes on the data

• Pay is what employers post, measured from the hourly rates open jobs state, before shift differentials and bonuses.
• Results cover US jobs only.
• Send people to the link in each result to apply. The tools never apply to a job.

Privacy

The tools send only the arguments of each call to https://carejobs.now/api/mcp and store nothing. See the CareJobs.Now privacy policy and terms.

Development

uv sync
uv run pytest tests
CAREJOBS_LIVE=1 uv run pytest tests  # also runs the live API tests
make lint

Links

• Service: https://carejobs.now
• Source: https://github.com/yumaheymans/llama-index-tools-carejobs
• Contact: hello@carejobs.now
• LlamaIndex