Substitute Teachers for Primary School

Lerums kommun · Vollzeit

Bagges Torg, Lerum, Schweden

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural settings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is only 20 minutes from Gothenburg and is currently entering a development-intensive period with many exciting projects underway, from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate. Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the major city municipality category (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas including schools, healthcare and social services, finances, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. About the Staffing Unit Lerum Municipality's Staffing Unit employs substitute teachers for work when regular staff are absent. This can be absence during both shorter and longer periods. As a substitute teacher, you are employed on an intermittent basis and receive work assignment inquiries on an ongoing basis. Inquiries may come the same day or with longer notice. Through a digital booking system, you indicate your availability and can express interest in work assignments. As a substitute teacher, work assignments can vary from day to day, and you may work in different schools throughout the municipality. Working hours are daytime on weekdays. 20 position(s). WORK DUTIES You are a trustworthy and positive role model for our students and support them in both their learning and social development. You act with calm, responsibility, and judgment even in challenging situations, and show the way by being stable, clear, and consistent in your interactions. By being actively present, you guide and motivate students in their schoolwork, participate in their activities, and contribute to a safe and structured environment. You help create study conditions, set clear boundaries, and build good relationships through interaction in the classroom and during other parts of the school day. The work is varied and involves significant responsibility and independence. Examples of work tasks: • Lead lessons and manage classroom work based on regular staff's planning • Serve as an extra resource in the classroom and support the teacher in daily work • Assist individual students with tasks and needs that arise • Be present during breaks to contribute to safety and good relationships • Work in after-school activities QUALIFICATIONS Who are you? We are looking for someone who finds it easy to make social connections and can quickly build trust with students. You take responsibility, show initiative, and are confident working independently. You have a good ability to structure your work and drive it forward, while being responsive, attentive, and enjoying collaboration in a team. You are a person who can quickly familiarize yourself with new student groups, routines, and plans, and independently handle situations that arise during the school day. Educational background and experience The position requires a high school diploma. Experience from working in primary school, service positions, or work where you support or help other people is a merit. We place great importance on personal suitability. Important to know Before an employment offer, an acceptable excerpt from the Police Authority's criminal record register must be presented. You order the criminal record register yourself. After submitting your application, you will receive more information in the automated response as well as a link to the police website for ordering. Employment type: Fixed-term employment. Duration: 3-6 months. Working hours: Daytime. Lerum Municipality is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html and the collective agreement General Provisions AB https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html. We apply individual and differentiated salary setting, and the individual salary is affected by both the difficulty level of the position and your competence and experience. In accordance with the pay transparency directive, we have made salary statistics available on our website, and you can find information about our collective agreement, our employee benefits, and applicable salary ranges for the current position here: https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as information for you as a job seeker. As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use personal Bank-ID in the service for authentication, for example in system login or other verification. To quality assure the recruitment process, we ask that you submit your application via this link, and not by email or paper format. We warmly welcome your application! For this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We politely but firmly decline to be contacted with further offers of competency mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.