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Västerås City has a central and unified recruitment process for teachers in practical and aesthetic subjects in primary and lower secondary schools. We aim to become a leading city for education, and to achieve this, we need the best teachers. In crafts, music, art, physical education and health, and home economics, you will develop teaching with a focus on creativity, creation, and participation!

Your Responsibilities

In practical and aesthetic subjects, you will work with an exploratory and creative approach where students' abilities, creativity, and desire to learn are at the center. You inspire students to develop practical skills and help them understand a healthy lifestyle.

Your main task is to work with planning, teaching, supervision, and value-based work based on the curriculum (LGR22). As a teacher, you continuously develop new methods based on the students you meet and leverage their interests to create fun, meaningful, and challenging teaching.

By documenting and following students' learning, you create good conditions for them to reach their goals. The role also includes contributing to student health work to ensure that students feel well and safe at school.

Current Needs

The positions are permanent and full-time, starting Autumn Term 2026, unless otherwise stated.

Art

• Updated continuously

Home Economics

• Grades 7-9, Nybyggeskolan

Physical Education and Health

• Pre-school to Grade 6, S:ta Gertruds skola, 50% PE and 50% other subject
• Grades 7-9, Irstaskolan, interim position from 2026-08-10 to 2026-12-18, plus two lessons per week in Grade 3
• Pre-school to Grade 6, Malmabergsskolan
• Pre-school to Grade 6, Norra Vallbyskolan
• Grades 6-9, Pettersbergsskolan

Music

• Pre-school to Grade 6, Bjurhovdaskolan, Music 50% and 50% after-school care, substitute teacher or other subject
• Pre-school to Grade 6, S:ta Gertruds skola, Music 50% and 50% other subject
• Pre-school to Grade 9, Gäddeholmsskolan
• Pre-school to Grade 6, Ormkärsskolan, regular and special needs school

Textile Crafts

• Pre-school to Grade 6, Apalbyskolan and Piltorpskolan, Crafts Teacher Textile or Wood and Metal
• Grades 3-6, Hökåsenskolan
• Grades 7-9, Kristiansborgsskolan
• Grades 3-9, Pettersbergsskolan

Wood and Metal Crafts

• Pre-school to Grade 6, Apalbyskolan and Piltorpskolan, Crafts Teacher Textile or Wood and Metal Crafts
• Pre-school to Grade 6, Bjurhovdaskolan
• Grades 3-9, Gäddeholmsskolan
• Pre-school to Grade 6, Håkantorpsskolan
• Grades 7-9, Kristiansborgsskolan
• Pre-school to Grade 6, Mälarparkskolan, 80% Wood and Metal Crafts and 20% teaching in another subject or resource time
• Grades 3-6, Rösegårdsskolan, interim position for the academic year 2026/2027
• Grades 7-9, Tillbergskolan
• Grades 7-9, Önstaskolan

Read more about our schools here: Primary School - Västerås (https://www.vasteras.se/grundskola)

Your Competence

You are a certified teacher in primary and lower secondary school with qualifications in crafts, music, art, physical education and health, and/or home economics. You use digital tools as a natural part of teaching. It is an advantage if you have qualifications in additional subjects.

With secure pedagogical leadership, engagement, and clarity, you create participation, trust, and good collaborations with students, guardians, and colleagues. You are structured and plan, organize, and prioritize your work, while flexibly adapting teaching to students' needs and changing conditions. Collaboration is a natural part of your work, both in planning and in sharing knowledge and experiences.

We Offer

Among our employees, there is a diversity of knowledge, and we actively work on developing forms for collegial learning. You become part of a large school organization with opportunities for new challenges without having to change employers. We offer various forms of competence development such as training, networks, mentoring, and opportunities for career paths as lead teachers or senior teachers. We also have a trainee program for future school leaders.

Here you become part of something bigger! With warmth and respect, we show initiative in the big and small things. We live our values in our meetings with each other and those we serve. Every day, all year round, we ensure that Västerås functions. Together with your approx. 11,500 colleagues around the city, you have Sweden's most important job.

Read more about opportunities, career paths, and our offer here: Jobs and Career (https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarriar)

Recruitment Process

We have a central and unified recruitment process for teachers in primary and lower secondary schools. Positions are filled continuously based on the schools' needs, and the advertisement is updated continuously with open positions. When you submit your application, you have the opportunity to request schools, and if you proceed after a possible interview, you can visit the schools that match the current need.

If you are not a trained teacher, your application may be forwarded to principals with open temporary positions.

If you already work as a teacher at our schools today but are interested in changing units, you need to apply here. However, you do not need to go through the entire recruitment process.

Other Information

Before you can be employed, you need to show a clean extract from the police's criminal record register.

In connection with the interview, you need to prove your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or alternatively a certificate of personal status together with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit. Employment can only take place after verification of the work permit, which is required according to the Aliens Ordinance.

All offers regarding recruitment and advertising assistance are declined.

Employment Type: Permanent position.