The capital city is launching a campaign to recruit new employees for Bratislava’s senior facilities
20. 05. 2025
Bratislava, 20 May 2025 – The City of Bratislava manages seven city facilities that provide seniors with year-round residential care. This social service includes social counselling, rehabilitation, nursing and care provision, such as accommodation, meals, cleaning, maintenance of bed linens and various recreational activities. The facilities for seniors have for several years now been facing a shortage of nurses, practical nurse assistants and care providers, which leads to general difficulty in the provision of these services.
The capital is aware of this problem and is coming up with solutions. This year it has decided to address the problem with a nationwide, targeted recruiting campaign, through which it will seek new applicants for all city facilities for seniors. Thanks to this initiative, which is being overseen by the Social Affairs Section of the Bratislava City Hall in cooperation with the Bratislava Service Centre, the city’s facilities for seniors no longer have to depend solely on themselves or partial campaigns focused only on Bratislava.
Bratislava Deputy Mayor Lenka Antalová Plavuchová says:
“Our seven city facilities for seniors care for a total of 1,200 seniors and employ up to 600 people. Job openings are always found in these facilities, so we are happy to offer stable work in Bratislava for anyone interested in meaningful employment.”
The capital city is offering potential applicants not only high-quality benefits, but also job stability. Unlike many other professions, there is no risk in this one that employees will be replaced by artificial intelligence or become redundant because the demand for the product their factory produces has suddenly decreased. They also do not have to worry about their workplace being shifted to another country and their employment being terminated. The position of a care provider is also an excellent opportunity for those who have lost their job or are looking to change their career trajectory – all they need to do is take a course paid for by the city.
Andrea, the winner of the Good Heart Award, who decided to become a nanny after caring for her grandmother, says:.
"I believe that many people can find themselves in this job. This is helping people who really need our work.”
Since the cooperation of different professions is very important in city facilities for seniors and their employees have different life experiences, the campaign also stresses the diversity of the work collective.
Branislava Belanová, director of Domov jesene života (the Autumn of Life Home), says:
“I’m proud of my team of colleagues who do an excellent job every day, thanks mainly to cooperation with each other, communication with families and seniors and also thanks to mutual respect.”
For people from smaller towns and other parts of Slovakia, living in Bratislava, with all its opportunities, is also a great benefit. The protagonists of the campaign appreciate the city’s openness and culture of tolerance and respect, thanks to which they feel better here, even if they are not members of the majority.
Patrik, a care provider from the Gerium facility, says:
“It’s rather difficult to find a job in the east, especially if you are Roma or have a different orientation – people there perceive these things rather conservatively.”
Life in the capital is also praised by sisters from Ukraine, who feel at home here after overcoming the initial language barrier.
Tetiana from the Donbas region says:
“We are a whole family here and we all like it here very much.”
Like Bratislava itself, Bratislava’s facilities for seniors are supportive places where everyone who wants to contribute to ensuring that our elderly fellow citizens have a dignified old age is welcome.
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