Casual teachers play an important role in schools, teaching students when their regular teacher is unavailable.
Casual or relief teaching
Our casual or relief teachers work in public schools for less than 20 consecutive days. Each of our schools select and employ their own casual teachers.
If you are a teacher – newly graduated, returning to your teaching career or re-entering education as a previously retired school principal – you can apply for relief teaching roles.
You can access our relief teaching roles through our Casual Staff Seeker system. Follow these 3 easy steps to apply!
1. Make sure you are eligible
To be a relief teacher in a Western Australian public school, you must have a recognised tertiary teaching degree.
You will also need:
2. Apply to the Casual Teacher Pool
Our public schools use a central booking system for casual teaching staff.
To access this system and set up your profile, you need to apply to our apply to our Casual Teacher Pool. If you are a pre-service teacher, you’ll apply for the Casual Teacher Pool for Pre-service Teachers.
After you provide information about your qualifications and eligibility to work, you will receive login details for our Casual Staff Seeker system.
Check with your local school about their preferred process, including how you can let them know about your availability and if they accept resumes directly.
3. Set up your Casual Staff Seeker profile
You can now work in public schools across the state!
Using your login details, set up your Casual Staff Seeker profile. Personalise your profile to suit your location, availability and teaching preferences.
If you’d like to find out about a particular school, visit Schools Online.
Get ready to start work!
You will receive a text message and email each time a school staff member sends you a booking request.
Log in to Casual Staff Seeker to find more information about the job and accept the booking. Pack your bag, make your lunch and get ready for school!
Explore a part-time teaching role
If you want to ease into retirement or balance work with time spent on your hobbies and interests or with your family, a part-time teaching role might be perfect for you.
Part-time teaching roles vary across learning areas, locations and the number of weekly work hours.
Whether you work in education support, as a primary school music teacher, in our secondary schools as a specialist or generalist teacher or in another learning area or setting – part-time roles are waiting for you in our current jobs.
