The municipality of Rezekne will reorganise social care institutions

On March 4, at the Rēzekne District Council, MEPs decided to set up a new municipal institution on 1 May 2021 - “Rēzekne District Social Care Centre”, which would legally bring together social care institutions of that time: the old people's homeland in Sheržans with the branch “Pilcene”, as well as the health and social care centre “Malta”. The legal address of the new care institution will be in the hospital street 2, in Sherjans, while the units will be located in the current home in Malta and the municipality of Dricana in Pilcene. The reorganisation process will be coordinated by the social service of Rezekne District.

“The benefits of the planned merger will be improvement of the quality of social care services, a single organisation of work, joint accounting and accounting, more convenient and faster handling of economic issues, strengthening and improvement of the technical base, as well as the possibility of organising joint public procurement,” said Janis Troška, Executive Director of the municipality of Rezekne. “The new institution will also be subject to a review of the remuneration system in order to obtain equivalent remuneration for equal duties.” 

As the executive director of the municipality stressed, the aim of the merger is not to reduce the number of employees: “in this specific field of care, the number of employees is determined in accordance with the regulatory enactments regulating the sector and according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Welfare and is already optimal, so the workers in the care centres must not be worried about the preservation of their place of work.” However, it is not excluded that the number of employees employed in the administration of the institution will be assessed.

The head of the newly established institution will be selected in an open tender procedure, without denying the opportunity to qualify for this position as well as the current leaders of the institutions. The call for a vacancy will be announced in the next few days. The new institution “Rēzekne District Social Care Centre” is expected to be launched on 7 May.

Madara Burtina,
Public relations specialist of the municipality of Rezekne