The Cabildo finances with seven million euros the reinforcement of the staff of the Institute of Social and Socio-sanitary Care (IASS) to improve care for vulnerable people. The insular president, Pedro Martín, stresses that the approval of the new structure will be taken to today’s plenary session, with an unprecedented contracting that will contribute to improving and strengthening the internal organization chart of an institution that provides service to more than 15,000 people on the island. .
The government group of the Cabildo takes to the November session the approval of the template of both the labor personnel and the official of the organization. The new structure was approved by the Governing Council, as well as the increase in those more than seven million euros for personnel expenses that its application entails. This last step culminates the processing of the largest job consolidation process at the IASS since its creation twenty years ago.
“This change in the institute’s structure will contribute to improving the social care provided on the Island,” says the president of the corporation, Pedro Martín, who adds that “there will be 169 positions that will be enabled, 141 for labor personnel and 28 of officials, which is an unprecedented measure that reinforces and renews a staff that has remained immovable for more than two decades.
Pedro Martín points out that during this mandate the budget allocated to IASS personnel expenses has increased by 10.6 million euros. Thus, it has gone from 54.2 million in 2019 to add 64.8 in 2022. An amount that, with the agreements that will be brought to today’s plenary session (10:00 a.m.), will continue to increase in 2023 “to attend to the necessary strengthening of an organization that urgently needed to adapt to the social reality of the Island, and whose workforce workers and workers had not been updated in all this time, “stresses the president.
For her part, the Minister of Social Action, Marián Franquet, points out that the new structure of the IASS “will be essential to provide better care to citizens, fulfilling the commitment to promote the socio-sanitary capacity of Tenerife and third sector entities”.
The counselor recalls that 1,900 people work at the IASS and that, thanks to their efforts and good work, they can serve 15,000 users on the Island, both through the nine direct management centers and through all the entities with which the IASS collaborates. Institute using the Ring of Social Policies.
Franquet points out that with this new reinforcement in the workforce “some problems derived from the normal functioning of the organization will be resolved.”
new RPT
The person in charge of the insular social area explains that the new List of Jobs (RPT) will generate a structural modification of the IASS. Now it goes from having a single unit to four new administrative services: Childhood and Family, Gender Violence, Dependency and Works, Patrimony and Maintenance. These four large blocks will make it possible to work on tackling future challenges, such as the deployment of the social agreement, the increase in dependency care resources, the execution of the Tenerife Socio-Health Infrastructure Plan or the payment time of the subsidies to third sector entities.
Among the 141 new positions for labor personnel are 53 nursing assistants, 36 nursing assistants, and 27 corresponding to educational specialist technicians and techniques. The reinforcement will make it possible to have the necessary jobs to cover the morning, afternoon and night shifts every day of the year, including holidays.
