Cantabria Launches 2025 Public Employment Offer to Strengthen Healthcare Workforce Stability
Cantabria's 2025 Public Employment Offer introduces 338 healthcare positions with reforms to reduce temporary staff and strengthen workforce stability.
- • Cantabria approved 338 healthcare positions in 2025 OPE targeting workforce stability.
- • 310 positions filled via competition-opposition; 28 hard-to-fill roles filled by merit only.
- • Previous offers from 2021 and 2022 will be adapted to new rules.
- • Goal to reduce temporary healthcare staff to 8% and improve care quality.
Key details
The Cantabria government has approved the 2025 Public Employment Offer (OPE) for Statutory Personnel in Health Institutions, introducing 338 new healthcare positions aimed at reducing temporary employment and improving workforce stability. Of these, 326 positions focus on replacements, 28 are designated as hard-to-fill, and 12 are reserved for internal promotion, including quotas for persons with disabilities.
Most positions (310) will be filled through the traditional competition-opposition system, which involves selective tests alongside merit evaluation. However, a significant change has been made for hard-to-fill roles; these will be awarded solely based on merit evaluation, eliminating the exam phase to better attract and retain professionals.
The Health Department will also revise previous employment offers from 2021 and 2022 to align with the new recruitment framework. Applications will be submitted electronically, with detailed bases soon to be published in the Official Bulletin of Cantabria. This recruitment drive aligns with an open and permanent competition system aiming to progressively fill all vacancies with permanent staff.
The government’s goal is to reduce temporary healthcare staffing to the European Union target of 8%, ensuring a stable, sufficient, and well-prepared workforce to provide effective and safe healthcare services to the public. This marks a proactive step toward improving the region’s healthcare system and employment conditions for health professionals.
This article was synthesized and translated from native language sources to provide English-speaking readers with local perspectives.
