Teacher for Östad School, Lerum Municipality

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural areas with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located only 20 minutes from Gothenburg and is currently facing a period of intense development with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Furthermore, Dagens Samhälle has recently named Lerum the winner in the category of large city municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities regarding schools, healthcare and social services, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

About the Position

Östad School is looking for a teacher for the upcoming Grade 2, a substitute position for the academic year 2026-2027. Are you the teacher with broad qualifications who, together with your work team and the rest of us at the school, wants to give students the very best conditions to feel good, learn, and succeed? Do you want to make a big difference in a small community? Then this is the job for you!

About Östad School

Östad School is a K-6 school with an associated after-school center. We have one class in each grade, and in the autumn, there will be approximately 125 students at the school. We are located on the outskirts of the beautiful Sjövik, next to Östad Church, the forest, and the meadows. You can easily get here by bus, car, or why not by bicycle.

There are around 20 people working at the school. We work systematically with our quality work and always keep the student in focus. We connect current research to our development areas, which in the autumn will focus on pedagogical leadership and teaching in reading, writing, and mathematics.

For us, it is important that students get to use all their experiences and languages to develop identity, new skills, and knowledge. We see that students learn best when they are allowed to work and develop together. Our vision, that we teach with heart and mind, is based on a view of humanity that includes and accepts everyone. The goal is for Östad's students to feel good, experience security, study peace, and good community, and leave school with a fine sense of self-esteem, great initiative, and good academic results.

Are you the teacher who, together with us, wants to equip our students with trust in their own and others' ability to do good? Are you the one who wants to give our students hope for the future and knowledge that helps them to go far and succeed in life? Are you curious, interested, inventive, and someone who finds joy in seeing students develop and grow as human beings? Then Östad is the place for you! We offer you a workplace with much knowledge, experience, great freedom, a good learning community, much warmth, and laughter. We who work at Östad School believe we have our hearts in the right place and our heads on straight. We have fun together and help each other.

Job Responsibilities

You will work as a substitute class teacher in Grade 2. It is a class with 19 students. You are part of the work team for Grades K-3. Your task is to plan, conduct, and assess students' knowledge and development, but also to work to ensure that students feel good, believe in themselves, and develop as a group. You will have ample opportunity to use your competencies and ideas to find paths, methods, and pedagogical tools to develop teaching, as well as to create favorable extra adjustments and special support. At your disposal are your work team, the entire staff, and the school's special education teacher (EHT).

Qualifications

You need to have broad qualifications and be a licensed teacher for teaching in the younger age groups.

Employment Details

• Number of positions: 1
• Employment type: Fixed-term employment
• Duration: Start date 2026-08-12, end date 2027-06-18
• Working hours: Daytime

About Lerum Municipality

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030. We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the operations, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive treatment.

We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as a fitness allowance and an employee welfare program. Read more about our employee benefits here: lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

In accordance with the Pay Transparency Directive, Lerum Municipality wishes to inform you that the employer is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK HÖK (https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html) collective agreement General Provisions AB AB (https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html) and applies individual and differentiated salary setting. In accordance with the directive, you are hereby informed that the entry salary interval for this position is minimum salary 34,300 - 40,590 SEK. Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as a notification for you as a job seeker.

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