Justice Department opens interim recruitment lists with 730 positions for the courts of Cantabria

The Ministry of Presidency, Justice, Security, and Administrative Simplification of the Government of Cantabria has called for the establishment of job banks for interim civil servants serving the Administration of Justice in the community, with a total of 730 members distributed across four bodies. The call is formalized through the Resolution of November 9, 2026, of the General Directorate of Justice and Victims of Terrorism, published in the extraordinary Official Gazette of Cantabria number 32, of November 11, 2026 (reference CVE-2026-8910).

The regulatory framework of the call

The resolution is issued under Order PRE/140/2026, of September 25, which regulates the selection, training, appointment, and dismissal of interim civil servants serving the Administration of Justice in Cantabria, the objective of which is to establish criteria that allow for the appointment of interim staff “with sufficient agility and speed” under the principles of equality, merit, and capacity. Article 3.4 of that order establishes that the job banks have a validity of two years, unless an early call is made due to exceptional circumstances.

According to the published text, two years have already passed since the publication of the current job banks and the new regulatory order has been approved, therefore it is appropriate to renew them. The signature corresponds to the Director General of Justice and Victims of Terrorism, Severiano A. Cuesta Alonso, in Santander, on November 9, 2026.

Distribution of positions by body and disability quota

The number of members for each job bank is fixed as follows:

• Forensic Doctors Body: 30 people.
• Procedural and Administrative Management Body: 220 people.
• Procedural and Administrative Processing Body: 320 people.
• Judicial Assistance Body: 160 people.

Reserve banks may be established with those who are not selected, which will continue the consecutive numerical order. In each bank, a quota of no less than 7 percent of the positions will be reserved for people with disabilities, in accordance with Article 4.2 of the Recast Text of the General Law on the rights of persons with disabilities, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2013, of November 29. Accreditation corresponds to the multiprofessional teams of the Evaluation, Assessment, and Orientation Center of the Cantabrian Institute of Social Services (ICASS) or equivalent entities.

The job banks will have a validity of two years and applicants may appear simultaneously in several, although they will be in a “not available” status in the others while they are appointed to a body. Each application must be submitted separately for each body.

Deadline, requirements, and merits

The deadline for submitting applications is 15 business days from the day following the publication of the resolution. The application is completed via the electronic office of the Government of Cantabria, under procedure 1860, using an electronic certificate; information is also available via telephone at 012 from within Cantabria and 942 39 55 63 from other regions.

General requirements include Spanish nationality, age between 16 and compulsory retirement, the required qualification, functional capacity, and the absence of incompatible criminal or disciplinary records. The required qualifications are:

• Forensic Doctors: Degree or Bachelor’s in Medicine.
• Procedural and Administrative Management: Degree, Bachelor’s, Diploma, Technical Engineering, or Technical Architecture.
• Procedural and Administrative Processing: Baccalaureate or equivalent.
• Judicial Assistance: Graduate in Compulsory Secondary Education or equivalent.

Points are obtained through self-assessment, which is binding. Experience in the Administration of Justice provides up to 36 points (0.20 per full month in the same body); passing selective tests provides 48 points if all exercises were passed without obtaining a position, 30 with two or more, and 18 with the first. Qualifications add up to 12 points, with specialties valued in the case of forensic doctors. Processes convened by orders JUS/1254/2022, PJC/64/2024, PJC/94/2024, and PJC/1446/2024 will be addressed.

Preferred destinations and processing

Members may be called to any judicial district in Cantabria. However, the application allows for the indication of a willingness to cover positions with preference for Castro Urdiales, San Vicente de la Barquera, Santoña, or Reinosa, indicating the order of preference; anyone who rejects a position offered in those districts will be excluded from all pools. Ties will be resolved by selective tests, experience, and qualifications, and finally by the alphabetical order of surnames starting from the letter “B”, according to the Resolution of June 29, 2026, of the State Secretariat for Public Function.

Following the assessment by the valuation commission, provisional lists of admitted and excluded candidates will be published, with a period of five business days for allegations without the possibility of expanding merits. The final lists will be approved by resolution and will enter into force the day following their publication, nullifying the previous ones. An administrative appeal (recurso de alzada) may be filed against the resolution before the Councilor for Presidency, Justice, Security, and Administrative Simplification within one month.

The call for applications determines the coverage of vacations, leaves, and reinforcements in the Cantabrian judicial bodies over the next two years: the ordinary activity of the courts depends on the agility of these pools, and the order of call for hundreds of applicants depends on the scoring system.

Source: Official Gazette of Cantabria, no. 32 extraordinary, November 11, 2026, section 2.2 (Authorities and Personnel. Courses, competitive examinations and contests), pp. 5722-5728 (official reference: CVE-2026-8910).