South Shore Regional Centre for Education

The South Shore Regional Centre for Education (SSRCE) practices the culturally responsive pedagogy approach in providing an inclusive, diverse, equitable, safe and healthy education that supports learning and success both personally and academically to the 59,000 residents of Lunenburg and Queens Counties, an area of 5,250 square kilometres and a total of 23 schools.

Regional Centres for Education have Employment Equity Policies and/or processes and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly people of African Nova Scotian, African Canadian and African ancestry and Mi’kmaw/Indigenous ancestry. Please ensure that you complete the self-identification portion on the position application.

Permit Substitute Teacher (Must have completed BA or BSc)

  These positions are for those individuals who have experience working with children AND have a completed undergraduate degree.   Effective Dates: Immediately upon receipt of your permit to teach until the end of the 2026/2027 school year  

Position Status: Causal (as needed basis)

Location: Lunenburg and Queens County, NS

Deadline to apply: August 31, 2026

  Rate of Pay:  $244.860 per day (as outlined in the Teacher's Provincial Agreement)   The South Shore Regional Centre for Education has substitute assignments daily which could range anywhere between Lunenburg and Queens County. Alternate (Permit) Substitute teacher positions occur when a teacher is engaged on a day-to-day basis to take the place of a regular classroom teacher, and when a substitute teacher is not available, employed by the SSRCE who is on any type of paid leave.  Alternate (Permit) Substitute teachers are paid two (2) weeks behind. Permit subsitute teachers are permitted only to pick up sub positions after 6:00am on the day of.   

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Commpleted Bachelor's Degree in Math, Science, English, French, Business, Arts or related field
• Experience working with children is required
• Satisfactory completion of the Child Abuse Register check
• Satisfactory completion of the Criminal Records and Vulnerable Sector Checks   SSRCE will provide you with all the information you will need to apply for a permit to teach IF you are selected through our screening process as a possible applicant. We will provide you with specific instructions on the process and the documents required.    IF you are shortlisted to be considered, you will receive a new hire employment package and Application for Permit to Teach. As part of this package, we will ask you to provide up to date Criminal Record and Vulnerable Sector checks along with a Child Abuse Registry check; these must be originals and within three months of hire date to be valid.     Original sealed transcripts from all educational institutions will also be required as part of the application (if you have taken ONE course for your degree at a separate university you will require tanscripts from that university as well as the university you graduated from)   Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.   If you are shortlisted and approved for an application, this process takes about six weeks from the time the original documents are submitted to HR. 

Thank you for your interest in the South Shore Regional Centre for Education, however, only those shortlisted for an interview will be contacted.