Are you multilingual and passionate about strengthening children's language development? Apply for the position of mother tongue teacher at the Mother Tongue Unit in Helsingborg City!
About the workplace
Helsingborg City Schools is a resource-rich and values-driven organization. As an employee, you will become an important part of our shared vision to create the best school for every child and student.
The Mother Tongue Unit in Helsingborg City is a dynamic and multicultural workplace where 70 dedicated teachers together teach approximately 3,200 students in over 40 different languages. The unit is responsible for organizing and planning mother tongue instruction and study guidance for multilingual students in the city's schools. As a teacher at the Mother Tongue Unit, you will teach at both municipal and independent primary and secondary schools throughout the city and have the opportunity to meet students of different ages. In addition to teaching, you will participate every Wednesday in professional development between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., where you will have the opportunity to develop your pedagogical skills and collaborate with colleagues.
Job Responsibilities
As a mother tongue teacher in Helsingborg, you typically combine two important roles: mother tongue teacher and study guidance counselor.
In your role as a mother tongue teacher, you are responsible for teaching students according to the curriculum in mother tongue, which means you plan lessons and adapt instruction based on each student's language level, needs, and age. You continuously assess students' development, conduct assessments, and assign grades according to given grading criteria. Mother tongue instruction in primary school comprises 60 minutes/lesson per week, while instruction in secondary school comprises 100 minutes/lesson per week. This may mean that work hours in some cases extend until 6:00 p.m. All teaching is conducted at schools in Helsingborg City.
As a study guidance counselor, you support students in understanding and acquiring content in various subjects in their mother tongue or strongest language. This often occurs alongside instruction, and your role is to support the student's language and knowledge development in various school subjects.
In your role as a mother tongue teacher and study guidance counselor, you will work across all school types, and in study guidance you will support all subjects according to students' needs.
We are seeking you with Kannada as your mother tongue. To work with us, you will need to work on Wednesdays. Digital interviews will take place 8/7 and onwards.
What we offer
We offer you a varied, responsible, and stimulating job with opportunities for personal development. The workplace is smoke-free and health-conscious. As an employee, you receive a wellness allowance of 3,000 kronor per year.
Qualifications
We are primarily seeking someone who has Swedish teacher certification with credentials in mother tongue. Otherwise, you should have other relevant academic education, where pedagogical training is an asset. You must have excellent knowledge of the Swedish language; be able to speak, read, and write fluently, and have completed Swedish 3 at the upper secondary level.
You are expected to be able to work goal-oriented and have a deep understanding of the national and municipal policy documents that govern school operations. Your ability to plan, implement, and evaluate instruction in accordance with these policy documents is crucial to ensure equivalence, high quality, and achievement of goals.
In the role of mother tongue teacher and study guidance counselor, it is also important that you are comfortable using digital tools both in instruction and for administrative purposes. You must be able to plan and conduct lessons with support from digital tools and use IT systems to document and monitor student knowledge development. The work requires that you are self-directed and can organize your work independently, while carefully handling administrative tasks such as documentation, assessment, and grading. The ability to balance the pedagogical and administrative parts of the work is a central part of the position.
We would prefer that you have a driver's license and access to a car, as the work involves travel during the workday.
Working in Helsingborg City
Do you want to help create a better city together with the people of Helsingborg? Then you should work in Helsingborg City. Here you can use your creativity and drive to make life easier and safer for our residents, visitors, and business community. Together with curious and helpful colleagues, you make a difference in people's lives, both today and in the future. A good job today, a better city tomorrow.
You can read more about what it's like to work in the city here: https://helsingborg.se/arbete/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-i-staden/
Other information
Application deadline: 2026-08-05
Employment form: Hourly employment or fixed-term employment (holiday employment) depending on operational needs
Scope: Hours or 5-20% depending on operational needs
Start date: August 2026
Duration: 5-12 months
Number of positions: 1
In Helsingborg City, we value diversity. We strive for our employees to reflect our residents and value what equal gender distribution and diversity bring to our operations. The position is filled on the condition that the position does not need to be used for employees already in permanent positions. If you are offered a position within preschool and school or open leisure activities, you must present a valid excerpt from the police criminal record. To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Helsingborg City, we use the recruitment tool ReachMee. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application via ReachMee by clicking on the application link in the announcement. Your CV and other documents relevant to the position must be attached to your application, such as certificates of education or professional credentials. You will also answer selection questions. If you are a job applicant with protected personal data, you should contact the recruiting manager mentioned in the announcement, who will guide you further for a secure application process. You should not apply digitally via the application link. As we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use in this recruitment, we kindly but firmly decline being contacted with further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.Are you multilingual and passionate about strengthening children's language development? Apply for the position of mother tongue teacher at the Mother Tongue Unit in Helsingborg City!
About the workplace
Helsingborg City Schools is a resource-rich and values-driven organization. As an employee, you will become an important part of our shared vision to create the best school for every child and student.
The Mother Tongue Unit in Helsingborg City is a dynamic and multicultural workplace where 70 dedicated teachers together teach approximately 3,200 students in over 40 different languages. The…
Přehled
Typ
job
Stav
active
Viditelnost
public
Město
Helsingborg
Adresa
Stortorget 17
GPS
56.0735795, 12.7838657
Email
Zobrazení
9
Publikováno
22. 7. 2026
Upraveno
5. 8. 2026
Poloha
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Parametry
Kraj
Skåne län
Duration
3–6 měsíců
Zaměstnavatel
HELSINGBORGS KOMMUN
Postcode
25189
Počet míst
1
Profese
Modersmålslärare i grundskolan
Salary Type
pevná měsíční, týdenní nebo hodinová mzda
Scope Of Work
0–100 %
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