Chiclana announces thirteen technical positions with reservations for people with disabilities

The City Council of Chiclana de la Frontera has announced thirteen career civil servant positions in the Special Administration scale, which will be filled by a competitive examination process (concurso-oposición) in the open category. The regulatory bases were approved by agreement of the Local Government Board on October 8, 2026, and are published in full in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz no. 217, dated November 11, 2026, under announcement No. 366,841.

The calls for applications are divided between two public employment offers: nine social work positions come from the 2024 and 2025 offers, while the two for architecture, one for psychology, and one for veterinary medicine are included in the 2025 offer. The announcement is signed by the Deputy Mayor delegated for Personnel, José Manuel Vera Muñoz, and by the Secretary General, Antonio Aragón Román, and is dated October 19, 2026.

Nine social work positions with reservation for disability

The bulk of the call corresponds to municipal social services:

• Nine positions for social work professionals, group A, subgroup A2, Special Administration scale, Technical subscale, Medium-Level Technical category.
• Required qualification: Diploma or Degree in Social Work, or a legally declared equivalent title verified by the Council of Universities.
• One of the nine positions is reserved for the disability category, open to those who can prove a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33%.
• Reserved positions that remain vacant will be added to the rest of the general access positions.

Architecture, psychology, and veterinary medicine: four senior technician positions

The other four positions belong to group A, subgroup A1, Special Administration scale, Technical subscale, Senior Technical category:

• Two positions for Architecture professionals.
• One position for a Psychology professional, for which the official title of Psychologist or a legally declared equivalent degree is required.
• One position for a Veterinary professional.

Each position has its own annexed syllabus, with common and specific subjects: urban planning, municipal regulations, and public procurement for architecture; social services, family, and minors for psychology; and food safety, animal health, and zoonoses for veterinary medicine.

Three eliminatory exercises and a merits phase

The selection process consists of three mandatory and eliminatory exercises, graded from 0 to 10 points, with a minimum of 5 required to pass:

• Multiple-choice questionnaire of 100 questions, with five reserve questions, four alternative answers, and a penalty of one-third for each error; two hours in duration.
• Written development of a general topic proposed by the tribunal, with a maximum of two hours.
• Resolution of one or several practical cases linked to the functions of the position, with a maximum of two hours.

The competitive examination is followed by a merit-based phase that values professional experience up to 3 points and training up to 1 point, with a global ceiling of 4 points. Those who pass both phases will undergo a six-month internship period, structured into a theoretical-practical training phase and a refinement phase.

Twenty-day deadline and 25 euro fee

Applications must be submitted within 20 calendar days from the day following the publication of the call announcement in the Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado), or until the first following business day if the deadline ends on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday. Examination fees amount to 25.00 euros, and non-payment will result in exclusion.

• Place of submission: General Registry of the City Council, municipal electronic office, or any of the registries admitted by article 16.4 of Law 39/2015.
• Tribunal: one Presidency, one Secretariat, and four Members, with voice and vote except for the Secretariat, appointed by the Mayor’s Office-Presidency.
• Tie-breaking: in the event of equal final scores, priority is given to the highest result in the competitive examination, then the second exercise, then the first, and finally, to the most underrepresented gender for the position.

The full rules will be published in the BOP of Cádiz and an extract in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía, while the call announcement will be inserted in the BOE, as required by Royal Decree 896/1991.

The call consolidates thirteen structural positions in a City Council that is reinforcing its community social services teams with nine social workers and its urban planning area with two architects, while incorporating psychology and veterinary positions in this package for the first time. For applicants, this represents one of the largest technical public employment pools open in the province and opens a deadline that will be counted from the publication of the announcement in the BOE, not from the BOP.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz, no. 217, of November 11, 2026, section I (Local Administration), pp. 4-15 (official reference: announcement No. 366,841).