Arrecife sets November 20 for the Social Work exam

The Arrecife City Council has approved the final list of admitted and excluded applicants for the selection process for six Social Worker positions and has set November 20, 2026, for the first examination. The resolution is signed, by delegation, by the Councilor for Tourism, Commerce, HR, and Sports, Elisabet Merino Betancort, via Decree 2026-12627, dated November 9, 2026. The text is published as announcement 3.108 (reference 2.292.680) in the Official Gazette of the Province of Las Palmas number 136, dated November 13, 2026.

Six civil service positions

The positions correspond to the Special Administration scale, Technical sub-scale, Special Administration Technician class, group A, subgroup A/A2, with a civil service bond and a competitive examination system in the open category. One of them is reserved for people with disabilities. The affected staff codes are FunA2_1004, FunA2_1420, FunA2_1399, FunA2_1328, FunA2_1384, and FunA2_1406[*D].

The positions originate from two public employment offers: one position from the 2023 offer, published in BOP number 157, dated December 29, 2023, and five from the 2024 offer, published in BOP number 159, dated December 31, 2024, and corrected by Mayoral Decree 2025-0333, dated January 16, 2025 (BOP number 10, dated January 22, 2025). The call for applications was approved by Decree 2026-6548, dated June 4, 2026, published in BOP number 69, dated June 10, 2026, and was rectified by Mayoral Decree 2026-8138, dated July 6, and by a new rectification on July 17, disseminated in BOP numbers 82 and 87, dated July 10 and 22, 2026.

The application period opened with the publication in BOE number 150, dated June 20, 2026, and the provisional list of admitted and excluded applicants was disseminated in BOP number 93, dated August 5, 2026, with five business days for appeals. The proposed resolution now being executed is PR/2026/12935, dated November 9, 2026.

Ninety-four admitted and nineteen excluded

The final list for the general category includes 93 admitted applicants and 18 excluded; added to these, in the position reserved for disability, is one admitted and one excluded. The admitted applicants are listed alphabetically, from Rosa M. Aguiar Pérez to Lorena Viñoly Miranda, along with their partially hidden ID numbers (DNI).

The causes for exclusion are coded into seven scenarios:

Failure to provide a certified photocopy of the Identity Document.
Failure to provide a certified photocopy of the required academic degree.
Submitting the Annex II application form unsigned or failing to provide it.
Failure to provide the proof of payment of the examination fee from the Lanzarote Tax Network.
Failure to provide a Category B driver’s license.
Failure to provide the negative certificate of sexual offense records.
Providing a qualification other than the one required in the rules.

Qualifying Board and Test Dates

The decree appoints the board, consisting of a president, a secretary with a voice but no vote, and four members, all with qualifications equal to or higher than those required:

Presidency: Mª Asenet Padrón Niz (titular) and Elena López Armas (substitute), officials of the Arrecife City Council.
Secretariat: Jaime I. Abdul Jalbar Martín (titular) and Mónica J. Álvarez Martín (substitute).
Member 1: Daisy Villalba Perdomo, from the Cabildo de Lanzarote; substitute Naira Arrocha Hernández, from the Tías City Council.
Member 2: Mª Candelaria Batista Ramírez, from the Cabildo de Fuerteventura; substitute Mª Fátima Viera Fernández, from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council.
Member 3: Rafael Iván Pérez Sierra, from the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council; substitute Mª Candelaria Lasso Martínez, from the Santa Brígida City Council.
Member 4: Abraham Ruano Ventura, from the Government of the Canary Islands; substitute Mª Penélope Rubio Moreno, from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council.

The board will be constituted on November 16, 2026, at 11:30 AM via electronic means. The first exercise will be held on November 20, 2026, at 11:30 AM at the Argana Alta Socio-Cultural Center in Arrecife, on Isa Street, s/n, behind the sports pavilion. The call for candidates will begin at 10:30 AM, and those summoned must appear with their DNI, starting with the candidate whose first surname begins with the letter “B”, in accordance with the draw published in the BOE number 161, dated July 3, 2026. Failure to appear after the call results in the forfeiture of the rights to participate in the rest of the process.

Allegations and Appeals

Against the resolution, which concludes the administrative route, an optional appeal for reversal may be filed within one month before the body that issued it or, directly, a contentious-administrative appeal within two months before the Court of First Instance, Contentious-Administrative Section of Las Palmas. The final list and the date of the exercise will also be disseminated on the notice board and on the municipal electronic office.

The call for applications affects an area, that of social services, with municipal staff currently being reinforced; therefore, the result of the process will determine the stable coverage of six direct care positions in Arrecife and sets the immediate schedule for nearly a hundred candidates on the island.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Las Palmas, number 136, Friday, November 13, 2026, section I, pages 19555-19566 (official reference: announcement 3.108, Decree 2026-12627).