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Date Published: 22/01/2024
Did you know? A third of foreign nurses working in Norway come from Alicante
Higher pay and better conditions are pushing more and more healthcare professionals to search for work outside of Spain
Stability, higher salaries and a better work-life balance are just some of the considerations pushing young professionals out of Spain and into the European job market. And Norway appears to have it all, according to the Ministry of Health, which revealed this week that a third of all non-Scandinavian nurses working there originally hail from Alicante.
This is due in large part to a company called Global Working, which prepares an intensive, high-speed Norwegian language course designed to bring students up to scratch before they make the big career move. But it’s not for the faint-hearted: the Alicante company packs in around 700 hours of study in just six months.
Students can learn the language either online or in person, and while enrollees aren’t guaranteed a job afterwards, Global Working does secure interviews with a large network of healthcare companies it works with.
But securing a job is rarely a problem since the demand for healthcare personnel in Norway is far greater than the supply. In fact, the unemployment rate in the sector is a tiny 0.5%.
One of Norway’s biggest draws is the low patient to nurse ratio compared to Spain – each nurse is only responsible for around 10 patients a day – which means that healthcare professionals feel they can provide a higher level of more individualised care. This, naturally, creates greater job satisfaction and contributes to the sense of doing a job well.
Following the success of sending Alicante healthcare staff to Norway, Global Working has expanded its operations and now exports early childhood educators to Germany. While the German language proficiency requirements are more stringent, the company provides 900 hours of instruction to help candidates achieve a B2 level.
Additionally, Global Working has started offering Spanish classes to foreigners and has established a network of apartments throughout the city for students from other regions of Spain who require accommodation.
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