Release to non-school locations - Teaching Service
Overview
From time to time opportunities arise for ongoing employees in the Teaching Service to take up positions in non-school Department locations. The arrangements that have been put in place to facilitate these opportunities are set out below and are designed to balance the workforce planning needs of schools and non-school locations.
Teaching Service to Teaching Service
An ongoing employee who is the successful applicant for an advertised ongoing or tenured position (e.g. leading teacher or principal class) in the Teaching Service in a non-school Department location will be transferred or promoted to that position. Transfer to a position at a lower level or salary range can only occur with the employee’s consent. At the expiration of the period of tenure the position may be renewed, abolished or advertised in accordance with the contract renewal or tenure renewal policy. In the event that tenure is not renewed the person remains an ongoing employee of the non-school Department location.
An ongoing Teaching Service employee who is selected for a fixed term Teaching Service position of three years or less in a non-school Department location will be temporarily transferred to that position subject to the base school principal’s agreement to the temporary transfer.
If the fixed term position is at a higher level the employee will be paid a higher duties allowance for the fixed term period. If the fixed term position is at the same level the employee will be paid his or her substantive salary. If the fixed term position is at a lower level there is no capacity to temporarily reduce an employee’s substantive salary. In this case the employee must elect to regrade to the lower level to accept the temporary transfer and any such regrade remains the employee’s substantive level on resumption at the base school.
In all other respects the employee maintains Teaching Service employment terms and conditions during his or her temporary transfer.
If the temporary transfer extends beyond three years the employee will be permanently transferred to that non-school Department location at his or her substantive classification and salary range. In this case the employee remains in the position until the conclusion of the fixed period. Should the employee subsequently become excess to workforce requirements, the procedures for the management of excess staff apply.
Further information regarding transfer and promotion in the Teaching Service, including eligibility and qualification requirements, is set out in the Recruitment in Schools Guide (PDF - 582Kb).
Teaching Service to Public Service
An ongoing Teaching Service employee who is the successful applicant for an advertised ongoing public service position in a non-school Department location will be transferred or promoted to that position.
The arrangements that apply to an ongoing Teaching Service employee who is selected for a fixed term public service position of three years or less in a non-school based Department location are as follows:
- subject to the base school principal’s agreement, the employee will be temporarily released from the Teaching Service and will be employed in the public service for the duration of the fixed period position;
- the salary, terms and conditions of employment, including access to any performance and development arrangements, will be those that apply in the public service;
- prior to return to the Teaching Service an employee should utilise any unused annual leave credits. On return to the Teaching Service any unused annual leave credits must be used during subsequent school holiday periods. The employee will be eligible for public service annual leave loading payments for any annual leave taken during the period of public service employment.
- on return to the Teaching Service the period of temporary release to the public service will count as service for personal and long service leave purposes and the employee will resume his or her substantive position in the base school on the salary subdivision they would have been on had they not been released, subject to the employee satisfying the eligibility requirements for salary progression.
If the temporary release extends beyond three years the employee will be permanently transferred to that non-school Department location at his or her substantive Teaching Service classification and salary range. In this case the employee remains on release to the public service position until the conclusion of the fixed period. Should the employee subsequently become excess to workforce requirements, the procedures for the management of excess staff apply.
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