# CareJobs.Now MCP server

A free, hosted, read-only [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server for **US healthcare jobs**. It lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients search the open jobs that [CareJobs.Now](https://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 `initialize` are 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:**

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http carejobs https://carejobs.now/api/mcp
```

**Cursor, VS Code and other clients that take a URL** (`mcp.json`):

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "carejobs": { "url": "https://carejobs.now/api/mcp" }
  }
}
```

**Clients that only run local (stdio) servers** can bridge to it with [mcp-remote](https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-remote):

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "carejobs": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://carejobs.now/api/mcp"] }
  }
}
```

## Agent skill

[`skills/healthcare-job-search/SKILL.md`](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`](https://carejobs.now/roles.json) (open jobs by kind of job and employer), [`/pay.json`](https://carejobs.now/pay.json) (posted hourly pay by kind of job) and [`/pay.csv`](https://carejobs.now/pay.csv). A dated open dataset is on Zenodo: [10.5281/zenodo.23395728](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23395728) (CC BY 4.0). An [llms.txt](https://carejobs.now/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`](server.json) for the MCP Registry. Questions: hello@carejobs.now.