Private Employment

There are two different ways of working in the private sector. It is possible to work for a private company or as a self-employed worker:

Working for a private company.

It is possible to access to this type of job by sending your curriculum vitae to the companies in the health sector as:

o Private clinics (some of these can be specialized)
o Clinics that works with insuring companies
o Private Hospitals
o Gyms
o Geriatric Clinics or Old People´s Home
o Spa or Health Resort

The best sources to find a job in the private sector are:
o Employment Exchange from the Official Physiotherapist´s College of each province. http://www.cfisiomad.org/.
o Internet (www.infojobs.net, www.oficinaempleo.com, are the most relevant ones).
o Newspapers and radio
o Official Employment Offices (INEM)

This kind of labour relationship is ruled by the legal regulation established in the Workers Statute. There are different wages agreements depending on the sector where you work. Some of the different wages agreements that can affect to a physiotherapist are the following:

- Health commercial establishment wage agreement.
- Gymnasium and hairdresser´s wage agreement.
- Catering Company or Hotel business wage agreement.
- State Wage agreement for Geriatric Clinics and Home Care Assistance.
- Assistance care, diagnosis, and physically handicapped rehabilitation state wage agreement.
All these wages agreements rule working areas as wages, holidays, maternity leaves, paternity leaves, working days in the year, weekly hours...

Self-employed worker

It is included in the Special System for Self-employed workers.
A person can established itself as self-employed as a Natural Person or through different associative forms as Limited Company (SL), Limited Liability Corporation (SA), cooperative, ownership….


State Grants: The Autonomous Region Administration publishes every year, different programmes for economic help. Usually it is better to start the activity before getting the subsidy because these subsidies or economic helps are granted after the activity has been started.

There are grants that the self-employed worker does not have to give back and others that are “soft credits” with a very low interest rate, below the one in the market. The most known “Soft credit” is the “Linea ICO” from the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (www.ico.es, Tel. – 900 121 121)

Other sources of funding:

For example, in Murcia, there are grants announced annually by the INFO (Instituto de Fomento de la Región de Murcia – www.ifrm-murcia.com ) which approves different economic helps categories for PYMES.