Finalise your maintenance of accreditation

At any time during your maintenance period, if your principal, service director, or employer identifies an issue with your practice not meeting the Standards at HALT, they must inform you (and your employer, where relevant) in writing within 28 days.

Work with your principal, service director, or employer to resolve the issue(s) they have identified.

Your principal, service director, or employer must tell NESA if, after giving you support and going through a formal performance process, it’s decided that your practice does not meet the Standards for Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher.

You can apply to NESA for an extension (PDF 223.05KB) to your timeframe in certain circumstances.

You may do this in the final 6 months before your due date. You will need to provide evidence of the grounds for your extension request. Grounds for an extension include:

• illness and misadventure
• carer responsibilities
• undertaking further study
• other applicable professional or individual circumstances.

If you have worked at the school, service, or with the employer for less than 3 months your principal, service director, or employer must contact your previous school, service, or employer (with your permission) before verifying that you have not maintained the Standards at Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher.

Your principal, service director, or employer will provide a written notification outlining the reason(s) and any Standard Descriptors have not met. You have the right to respond in writing within 28 days to address the issues identified.

Your principal, service director, or employer will review your response and make a verification to NESA.

If your principal, service director, or employer verifies that your practice does not meet the Standards at the relevant career level of HALT, we will:

• contact them and you, requesting further information and documentation to inform our decision
• review all relevant documentation and make an accreditation decision within 28 days of the verification and advise you and your principal/service director/employer of our decision.
   

In limited circumstances, your principal, service director, or employer will advise NESA that they cannot make a verification about your HALT accreditation.

These circumstances are:

• you have not worked in their school, service, or workplace long enough for them to confidently make a judgement about your practice
• the information your previous school, service, or employer provided has not assisted them in making a valid and reliable judgement.

If you have worked at the school, service, or workplace for less than 3 months, your principal, service director, or employer must contact your previous school, service, or workplace (with your permission) before recording that they are unable to verify your practice.

If you do not give consent for your principal, service director, or employer to contact your previous principal, service director, or workplace, they will likely be unable to make a verification.

What will happen:

1. Your principal, service director, or employer will send you a written notice stating they are unable to make an accreditation verification.
2. You should read the comments and discuss how you can address the reasons the given for not being able to make a verification.
3. You will be able to resubmit your form within your timeframe or you can contact NESA for further advice.

If you are close to, or have reached, the end of your maximum timeframe you may have grounds to apply to NESA for an extension (PDF 223.05KB).