Extraordinary process to make temporary public health staff permanent

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1. The Law creates a one-time-only extraordinary process to turn temporary jobs in Social Security health institutions into permanent statutory staff positions. Each Health Service runs its own calls, coordinated and simultaneous with the others.
2. The process has two phases. First a selection phase based on a competition-exam: those who pass it enter the 'expectativa de destino' status, which gives no pay rights and no job, but lets them take part in the second phase, the placement phase, where permanent positions are awarded.
3. In the selection phase, experience scores more if it was worked in the Health Service holding the call than in other Health Services. This aims to prevent mass movement of professionals between Autonomous Communities.
4. For group A qualification categories (requiring a university degree), the placement phase includes, in addition to merit scoring, an interview held locally by management centers. Area specialist physicians also get a separate transfer competition.
5. Anyone in the 'expectativa de destino' status must take part in the placement phase and request all offered positions; otherwise they lose that status and go on voluntary leave of absence. Those who do not get a position also go on voluntary leave of absence.
6. The processes must finish within a maximum of eighteen months from publication of each call in the Official State Gazette, and the Law involves no additional cost.

Who it affects

• Temporary statutory staff of Social Security health institutions: Can obtain a permanent appointment by passing the selection and placement phases.
• Permanent statutory staff: May voluntarily take part in the placement phase, which also works as a transfer competition.
• Area specialist physicians at INSALUD: Also have a specific transfer competition, separate from the consolidation process.
• People with a disability of 33 percent or higher: A quota of at least 3 percent of positions offered by each Health Service is reserved for them.
• Social Institute of the Navy (Instituto Social de la Marina): May apply the same Law to its health staff, with its own calls.

Words worth knowing

Personal estatutario (statutory staff)

Public health employees whose work relationship is governed by their own statute, not by labor law or the general civil service law.

Expectativa de destino (expectation of placement)

Temporary status of those who passed the selection phase but do not yet have a permanent job. It gives no salary and no position, only the right to compete in the next phase.

Concurso-oposición (competition-exam)

A selection system combining an exam with scoring of merits such as experience and training.

Concurso de traslados (transfer competition)

A process letting permanent staff change position or workplace, ranking participants by score.

Excedencia voluntaria (voluntary leave of absence)

A status in which the employee stops working and being paid but keeps their condition and may return later.

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