The IAAP repeats the 230 Nursing Assistant positions as a competitive examination-contest

The Asturian Institute of Public Administration “Adolfo Posada” (IAAP) has annulled the September call to fill 230 Nursing Assistant positions and has approved a new one in which the selection process will be resolved through the competitive examination-merit system (concurso-oposición) for both shifts. The decision is published in the Official Gazette of the Principality of Asturias (BOPA) No. 203, dated October 20, 2026, via the Resolution of October 14, 2026, by the Director of the IAAP, with official reference 2026-08453.

The replaced regulation is the Resolution of September 11, 2026, from the Ministry of Presidency, Demographic Challenge, Equality, and Tourism, published in the BOPA on September 17, 2026, whose clause 1.2 established the competitive examination as the system for the open access shift. The change affects the accumulated positions from the public employment offers of 2024 and 2025, approved by respective agreements of the Government Council on December 27, 2024, and December 22, 2025.

The minutes of the General Board that originated the change

The IAAP justifies the rectification based on the minutes of the General Negotiation Board of the Principality’s Administration held on December 4, 2025, where page 8 records the position of the Administration’s representatives in favor of the competitive examination-merit system for the open shift as well. Various letters from trade union organizations and applicants requested the call be made under that system, and on September 28, 2026, the General Directorate of Public Employment forwarded the minutes to the IAAP.

The body supports the change based on articles 43 and 44 of the Collective Agreement for the Principality’s contractual staff and articles 31 and following of the consolidated text of the Basic Statute of Public Employees Law, which grant mandatory status to the agreements of the General Board. The resolution also clarifies doubts regarding the qualification requirement, the alternative answers for the open shift questionnaire, and the requirements to be included in the temporary employment lists.

Distribution of the 230 positions

The positions are distributed between the two accumulated employment offers and four shifts:

• 2024 OEP: 93 ordinary internal promotion, 6 internal promotion reserved for people with disabilities, 25 ordinary open access, and 4 reserved open access.
• 2025 OEP: 68 ordinary internal promotion, 4 reserved internal promotion, 24 ordinary open access, and 6 reserved open access.
• Total for the call: 161 ordinary internal promotion, 10 reserved internal promotion, 49 ordinary open access, and 10 reserved open access.

The opposition phase of the internal promotion track will be resolved with a test of 40 questions plus 5 reserve questions, scored from 0 to 40 points with a minimum of 20; the open track will have two exercises of 40 questions each, scored from 0 to 20 points with half of the score as the threshold. The competition phase will only score those who pass the opposition and will add up to 10 points for services rendered in the category, at a rate of 0.66 points per full year.

Applicants, deadlines, and fee

By the principle of preservation of acts, those who have already submitted an application maintain their intent to compete without the need for new procedures; only those who wish not to participate must communicate this in writing, duly identified, in which case a file for the refund of the fee will be initiated. The deadline for submitting applications is 20 business days from the day following the publication of the rules, and the registration fee remains at 8.50 euros.

The tests may not begin before three months have elapsed since the publication of the call, and the call-up will begin with surnames starting with the letter “P”, according to the public draw of March 9, 2026. To form the temporary employment list, it will be sufficient to obtain at least 16 net correct answers in the test.

Impact

The rectification clears the legal path for the largest selection process for healthcare labor personnel convened in Asturias in the last two years and responds to the union claim, but it forces open-track applicants to prepare for a merits phase that previously did not exist and delays the calendar for tests that can no longer be held before mid-January 2027.

Source: Official Gazette of the Principality of Asturias, no. 203, of October 20, 2026, section I (Other Provisions), page 1 (official reference: 2026-08453).